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Two Singaporeans among three hikers reported dead after Indonesia's Mount Dukono erupts
Twenty hikers were on the slopes of the volcano when disaster struck, a local police chief told reporters.
Plumes of ash from Mount Dukono in Indonesia after it erupted on May 8, 2026. (Image: MAGMA Indonesia website)
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Three people - two Singaporeans and an Indonesian - died after Indonesia’s Mount Dukono erupted on Friday (May 8), sending ash into the sky as rescuers race to reach those trapped.
Twenty hikers were on the slopes when disaster struck, local police chief Erlichson Pasaribu told reporters. Fifteen of them have been rescued.
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