Thousands of people on the Indonesian island of Java have been ordered to evacuate after a volcano erupted spectacularly.
The eruption in east Java has hurled red hot ash and rocks over a huge distance, with an ash shower being reported as far as 200 kilometres away.
Luthfan Herdyanto is a resident in the city of Yogyakarta, in central Java.
He described the situation to Santilla Chingaipe.
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