An eruption of Mount Semeru has left a sand miner with severe burns after he was struck by superheated volcanic material in Indonesia's East Java province, authorities and local media say.
The eruption lasted about four minutes and generated pyroclastic flows, fast-moving avalanches of hot gas, ash and rock fragments from the volcano's summit, said Mukdas Sofian, a volcano observer at Indonesia's Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation (PVMBG).
The miner, Very Irawan, 33, suffered burns to about 80 per cent of his body and was admitted to hospital for intensive treatment, local media said.
