After several warning signs the volcano erupted in January 2021, catapulting plumes of smoke and debris into the sky and prompting local evacuations, before doing so again in August and again in March 2022, blanketing nearby villages with ash. It erupted yet again in March 2023 – an explosion so violent that it reportedly blocked out the sun, but mercifully caused no casualties.

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