A team of volunteers have travelled by boat on daring rescue missions to save abandoned pets from the foot of the volcano.
A villager looks at Mount Merapi, Indonesia’s most active volcano, as seen from Sleman. Image: AGUNG SUPRIYANTO / AFP
, lava and lightning that forced the island’s residents to be permanently relocated and thousands more evacuated., a team of volunteers travelled to Ruang by boat on daring rescue missions to save abandoned pets from the foot of the volcano that remains at its highest alert level. The dog, a female with burns on her face and body, was brought to a makeshift shelter on Tagulandang, where a veterinarian treated her on a wooden desk while a volunteer held up a mobile phone flashlight.
As of Saturday, more than 5 000 people from Tagulandang had been evacuated, the national disaster mitigation agency said on Sunday, while all of Ruang’s residents – more than 800 – had been taken for permanent relocation. “The first treatment we do here is give food and additional vitamins to relieve their stress,” he said, adding that the animals could survive as long as they were nourished.
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