(7 Jun 2006) SHOTLIST
1. Various night shots of lava
2. Wide of Mount Merapi with smoke rising
3. Various of refugee woman carrying small child on road
4. Close-up of smoke coming out of volcano
5. More refugee women walking on road
6. Close-up of smoke coming out of volcano
7. Various of villagers inside refugee camp
8. SOUNDBITE (Bahasa) Seger, local villager, refugee:
"I was so worried, I heard the sound of the volcano and it sounded like a helicopter, I was so scared that I carried my children and came to the refugee camp."
9. More of refugees
10. Children at camp
11. Close-up of Merapi
12. People onlooking volcano
STORYLINE
Local villagers continued to evacuate the area around Mount Merapi volcano on Wednesday, as lava and hot clouds of gas poured down the volcano's upper slopes.
The volcano has been spitting out lava and clouds of hot gases for days, and the mountain's lava dome has swelled in recent weeks raising fears that it could suddenly collapse and send scalding clouds of fast-moving gas and debris down into populated areas.
"I was so worried, I heard the sound of the volcano and it sounded like a helicopter, I was so scared that I carried my children and came to the refugee camp," said Seger, a local woman who just moved to the camp.
Red-hot lava flowed as far as one kilometre (half a mile) from the mountain's crater on Tuesday, while gas clouds called pyroclastic flows streamed as far as 2-1/2 kilometres (1-1/2 miles) down Mount Merapi's southwestern slope.
The three-thousand-metre (9,800-foot) mountain is one of the world's most active volcanos.
Activity has risen since a magnitude 6.3 earthquake on May 27 hit a region about 30 kilometres (20 miles) to the south, killing at least 5,862 people.
A major eruption could severely strain quake relief efforts.
The government had earlier urged residents to evacuate from a danger zone on the mountain's fertile slopes, but thousands of villagers remained in their homes, saying they didn't want to abandon their fields and livestock and complaining of boredom at the shelters.
Mount Merapi's last deadly eruption was in 1994, when it sent out a searing gas cloud that burned 60 people to death.
About 1,300 people were killed when it erupted in 1930.
Keyword- volcano
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