25,000 villagers flee rumbling Indonesian volcano

Up to 25,000 villagers have been evacuated from the slopes of a rumbling volcano on Indonesia’s Sumatra Island despite assurances by scientists today that the mountain was calming down.

The mass exodus from the slopes of Mount Talang reflects in part the nervousness of people living on Sumatra, which has been hit by almost daily earthquakes in recent weeks and was devastated by the December 26 tsunami.