Overview
- Following Friday's 7:41 a.m. local eruption, Mount Dukono sent an ash column about 10 kilometers high and stranded a group on Halmahera.
- Rescuers have evacuated 17 hikers after the blast, and searches continue for three missing as fresh eruptions and ash slow access.
- Police said two Singaporeans and one Indonesian died, and disaster officials reported at least five people injured.
- The party of about 20, including nine Singaporeans, entered a zone closed since April 17 with a 4‑kilometer no‑go radius around the Malupang Warirang crater.
- Officials kept an elevated alert and warned ash drifting north could hit Tobelo and trigger mudflows during rain.