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Mud volcano in East Java

(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-05-29 07:43

An aerial view of smoke spewing out of the mouth of a "mud volcano" surrounded by flooded houses in Sidoarjo in Indonesia's East Java province May 28, 2007. A year on following an oil-drilling accident, the torrent of mud gushing out of the drilling site on Java island, has shown no signs of abating and has submerged entire villages and displaced around 15,000 people. [Reuters]