From NPR.

Indonesia’s Mount Semeru volcano is erupting again.

Hundreds of people have been evacuated from villages on the island of Java that had been blanketed by ash. Authorities also had to rescue more than 170 mountain climbers who had been stranded by the eruption.

Semeru’s last major eruption, in December 2021, killed 51 people and several hundred others burned when villages were buried in layers of mud. That eruption forced the evacuation of more than 10,000 people.