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Death toll from Indonesian volcano now at 56

By ASSOCIATED PRESS

NOVEMBER 5, 2010 01:50

MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia — The death toll from Indonesia's fiery volcano has climbed to 56 after a blistering gas cloud ripped through a mountainside village.

Rescuers say at least 12 people were killed in the inferno and 50 others were hospitalized with injuries.

Men with ash-covered faces streamed down Mount Merapi on motorcycles followed by truckloads of women and crying children, following the massive eruption just before midnight Friday.

Waluyo Raharjo, a search and rescue official, said the bodies from the hard-hit village of Bronggang, located 9 miles (15 kilometers) from the crater, were being taken to a hospital morgue.

It was not immediately clear why families living within Merapi's "danger zone" had not been evacuated.

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