Three hikers dead after Indonesia's Mount Dukono volcano erupts

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(The Guardian) Three hikers – two Singaporeans and an Indonesian – have died in an eruption of Indonesia’s Mount Dukono volcano, where they found themselves in a no-go zone, officials said.

The eruption, on Halmahera island, sent an ash cloud about 6 miles (10km) into the air, with no towns or villages near enough to face any immediate threat.

Twenty hikers were on the slopes when disaster struck, the North Halmahera police chief, Erlichson Pasaribu, told reporters at a volcano monitoring station in Mamuya village. Nine were from Singapore and the rest Indonesian.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/08/hikers-dead-missing-eruption-indonesia-mount-dukono-volcano