Indonesian volcano spurts more hot gas

Indonesia's most volatile volcano unleashed another cloud of searing gas as rescuers pulled more bodies from a village smothered a week ago by eruptions.

The National Disaster Management Agency reported Sunday on its website that the toll from more than two weeks of eruptions had risen from 206 to 242.

Saturday's blast followed a similar one the day before.

No new deaths have been reported from the latest flows, which were well within the zone that has been evacuated.

Scientists from Japan, the US and France are traveling to Indonesia to study the data from Merapi and share their experience as experts struggle to figure out what the volcano will do next, according to Surono, the chief state volcanologist.