By Scott Neuman, Source: NPR

The second major volcanic eruption in as many weeks in Indonesia has killed at least three people and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands on the island of Java, as Mount Kelud spewed ash and debris 12 miles into the sky.

Thursday night’s eruption of the volcano, located 50 miles southwest of the country’s second-largest city of Surabaya, could be heard up to 125 miles away, Indonesia’s disaster agency says, .

Ratno Pramono, a 35-year-old farmer, tells the AP that the eruption “sounded like thousands of bombs exploding.”

“I thought doomsday was upon us. Women and children were screaming and crying,” he says.

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