Friday, 5 October 2007

flooded Sidoarjo, Indonesia's East Java




A villager works on dry mud which had flooded Sidoarjo, Indonesia's East Java province June 27, 2007. Scientists say they may never find the exact trigger for the continuing eruption of noxious-smelling mud from the ground that began on May 29 2006 and has since forced about 15,000 people to leave. Indonesia's government has ordered energy group PT Lapindo Brantas to pay compensation to victims of the mud flow which occurred 200 metres from a Lapindo exploration well and two days after a distant earthquake. Laprindo disputes that its drilling was a trigger

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