by Staff Writers Jakarta (AFP) Dec 27, 2011 One of Indonesia's
most active volcanoes erupted Tuesday, spewing clouds of ash and
panicking villagers but no evacuation has been ordered so far, a
government vulcanologist said. The first eruption at Mount Lokon
was at 3:07 am (1907 GMT Monday), followed by two more bursts
within minutes, Farid Bina told AFP from a monitoring post near
the volcano on Sulawesi island. "The eruption was heard as far
as five kilometres (three miles) away, causing panic among
villagers living close to the volcano," he said, adding that
winds blew volcanic ash to villages up to five kilometres to the
east and northeast. "Two villages with about 10,000 people each
have been affected by the ash, which stopped later in the
morning," he added. More than 5,200 people were evacuated to
temporary shelters when the 1,580-metre volcano erupted in July,
sending huge clouds of ash as high as 3,500 metres (11,500 feet)
into the sky. Lokon's last deadly eruption was in 1991, killing
a Swiss tourist