Three hikers dead and 10 missing after Indonesia’s Mount Dukono volcano erupts

Two foreigners among the dead, say authorities, after early morning eruption that spewed ash miles into the air

Three hikers have died and 10 are missing after an eruption at Mount Dukono on Indonesia’s eastern Halmahera island spewed an ash cloud about 10km (6 miles) into the air, local police have said.

“There are three dead, two foreigners and one resident of Ternate [island in east Indonesia],” Erlichson Pasaribu, the police chief of North Halmahera district, told Kompas TV.