Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung, which has been rumbling for months, spewed hot rocks and scorching ash up to 2,000m (16,000ft) into the air, and sent scorching hot lava and pyroclastic flows up to 4.5 km from the volcano.
“We suspect there are more victims but we cannot recover them because the victims are in the path of the hot (ash) clouds,” said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, the spokesman for the National Disaster Management Agency.
Sinabung had been quiet for around 400 years until it rumbled back to life in 2010, and again in September last year.
See amazing photos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25999333
http://news.sky.com/story/1204836/volcano-sinabung-erupts-killing-14-in-indonesia
Thanks to Angela Rambolosik and Dean Koehler for these links