印尼火山持续喷发 1.4万人逃离家园

Mount Sinabung in Indonesia's North Sumatra continues to spew volcanic ash, forcing more than 14,000 villagers to flee their homes.

印尼北苏门答腊的锡纳朋火山(Mount Sinabung)继续喷发火山灰，迫使逾1.4万名村民逃离家园。

'The numbers of the refugees is far greater than during the August to September 2010 eruptions, which were far bigger [than the one now],' said National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho on Wednesday.

印尼国家减灾机构(National Disaster Mitigation Agency)发言人努格罗荷(Sutopo Purwo Nugroho)周三说，此次难民数量远高于2010年8月至9月火山喷发期间，那次喷发的规模比当前大得多。

Roughly 12,000 villagers were evacuated when Mount Sinabung erupted three years ago after being dormant for 100 years.

锡纳朋火山三年前在休眠了100年之后喷发，当时约1.2万名村民被疏散。

He said the refugees are now living in churches, mosques and government buildings.

努格罗荷说，难民们现在住在教堂、清真寺和政府建筑中。

'Some of the men went back to their villages to check their crops and cattle,' he noted.

他指出，一些男子回到村庄察看庄稼和牲畜的情况。

Small planes serving short-haul flights in the region have been warned to avoid flying near the mountain, the manager for air navigation at Kuala Namu airport in North Sumatra's capital Medan told the Associated Press.

北苏门答腊首府棉兰的Kuala Namu机场负责空中导航的经理对美联社(Associated Press)说，在该地区执飞短途航班的小型飞机被警告避免靠近火山飞行。

Mount Sinabung's eruption follows a number of other rumblings and eruptions of volcanoes in Indonesia over the past few months. Indonesia has many active volcanoes because the archipelagic country lies on the Pacific Ring of Fire.

锡纳朋火山喷发之前，过去几个月印尼曾有多起其他火山发出异响和喷发的事件。印尼地处太平洋火山带，因此有许多活火山。