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Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Mt Soputan situated between South Minahasa and Southeast Minahasa in North Sulawesi province erupted on Friday at 4:15 p.m local time, with thick smoke and ash shooting high into sky.

Several Minahasa residents contacted from Jakarta on Friday said a part of Amurang, capital of South Minahasa regency, was blanketed with ash and fine sand, and by 5:05 p.m, the ash and fine sand that had settled on earth had reached a thickness of up to one centimeter.

The thick and black smoke and ash were clearly visible from Amurang. A Molompar villager, Tombatu subdistrict, in Southeast Minahasa Inyo Rumondor said a number of houses in Lobu, Silian, and Tombatu villages collapsed as they cannot bear the heavy solid materials from the volcano that had landed on their roofs.

The Southeast Minahasa regency administration has sent several ambulances to the villages, but there has been no official report on the number of damaged houses or fatalities caused by the Soputan eruption.


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