Brief halt for Indonesia mud flow - BBC

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Last Updated: Tuesday, 20 March 2007, 07:44 GMT

Brief halt for Indonesia mud flow

A massive mud flow that has displaced some 15,000 people in Indonesia's
Java island halted briefly for the first time in 10 months, officials say.

The mud stopped flowing for around 30 minutes on Monday morning, members
of the team trying to plug the flow said.

They have been dropping hundreds of concrete balls into the mouth of the
hole to stem the eruption.

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"None of our team members knows for sure what happened and we are still
trying to determine how it happened," he said.

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