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Tue 07 Jul 2008Indonesia's Ground Zero expanding
A giant stinking lake of volcanic mud has made 50,000 people homeless and swallowed up villages and factories, writes David McNeilland Andre Vltchek
INDONESIANS CALL it Pompeii, or their own Ground Zero, a giant stinking lake of volcanic mud that has made 50,000 people homeless and relentlessly swallowed up villages, factories, schools, mosques and major transport arteries since it began bubbling out of the earth two years ago.
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