An ash-covered volcano survivor has recorded a desperate plea for her mum to rescue her from the Mount Marapi eruption.
In the harrowing clip from Indonesia, the young woman, now identified as 19-year-old Zhafirah Zahrim Febrina can be heard saying: "Mum, help." Her face was burnt face smeared with thick grey ash as she waited in agony for rescue crews.
She had been hiking with 18 student friends when a volcano in Indonesia erupted but was lucking to escape with her life after 11 hikers were found dead on Monday (December 4) and another 12 were missing. Reports say the dead and injured were close to the crater when it erupted.
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Rescuers worked through the night to find dozens of hikers stranded on Mount Marapi on the island of Sumatra after it spewed an 3,000 metre ash tower into the sky. So far 49 people have been evacuated from the area.
Febrina was found and has been taken to a hospital in Padang Panjang, in western Sumatra to be treated for her injuries. Her mum Rani Radelani said that her daughter was shaken up by the incident but she was relieved to have been rescured.
Rani explained: "She is going through a tremendous trauma. She is affected psychologically because she saw her burns, and she also had to endure the pain all night.โ
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However, the search was temporarily suspended for those still missing following the disaster as there was another smaller erruption. Abdul Malik, head of the local government rescue agency explained to Agence France-Presse: "They are being carried down manually, rescuers are taking turns bringing them down. We canโt do an air search with a helicopter because the eruption is continuing."
Authorities did not immediately release the identities of the hikers. However, Rudy Rinaldi, head of the West Sumatra Disaster Mitigation Agency said: "Some suffered from burns because it was very hot, and they have been taken to the hospital."
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