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there were predictions that this would happen.. 

Indonesia's Merapi volcano erupts with lava and huge clouds of hot gases early on May 15, 2006, as seen from Cangkarang village on the outskirts of Yogyakarta, the provincial capital of Central Java province in Indonesia.

On Sunday police set up roadblocks to keep vehicles from getting within seven or eight kilometres of the crater, but allowed villagers to return to their homes to care for their farms

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