North Sumatra

Mount Sinabung in North Sumatra province was shooting smoke and ash as high as 1,000 meters.

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Mt Sinabung in north Sumatra, Indonesia erupted early this morning, spewing clouds of grey smoke and ash 5,000m into the sky.

Pak Darwin, a Chinese Indonesian, is a 48-year old rice miller in Sunggal, a suburb of the North Sumatran capital.

At least three foreign airlines have been planning to serve flights to part of Indonesia's ultimate tour destinations, Lake Toba in North Sumatra province, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

The tremors from the earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale which hit North Sumatra at 7.20 pm local time Monday were also felt in Peninsular Malaysia.

A moderate earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale hit northern Sumatra, Indonesia, this evening.

North Sumatra Police found the body of a man believed to be a Malaysian in a ditch in Desa Liberia, Teluk Mengkudu in Serdang district.

Sinabung is one of 129 active volcanoes in Indonesia, which sits on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

Three reporters of news portals were shot at by unknown persons while covering a crime story at Kampung Kubur in Medan, North Sumatra yesterday.

The undersea tremor struck at a depth of 75 kilometres (47 miles), 111 kilometres south of the city of Sibolga, in North Sumatra province.

The bodies of 73 victims in the crash tragedy involving an Indonesian Air Force Hercules C-130 aircraft have been recovered so far from the crash site in Medan, north Sumatra.

Mount Sinabung spewed ash into the air during an eruption near Karo, North Sumatra on January 8, 2014.

There has been no significant impact on air quality in the country due to the eruptions at Mount Sinabung volcano in north Sumatra, said the Department of Environment (DOE).

Heavy rains from Saturday evening till night triggered a landslide in the hilly area of Berastagi sub-district in North Sumatra.

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