Indonesian soldiers and rescuers uses a power shovel to dig through volcanic debris to reach two people trapped in an underground emergency shelter by the Mount Merapi eruption in Bebeng village outside Yogyakarta, Thursday, June 16, 2006. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim)
Smoke rises from the Mount Merapi volcano, near the ancient Indonesian city of Yogyakarta June 15, 2006. REUTERS/Dwi Oblo (INDONESIA)
Back home we had a name for a buried steel box surrounded by heat: pit BBQ.
A tragic way to die. Prayers for them and their families.
That has gotta suck......
They found them with 1,500 2-liter bottles of diet coke and 84 cases of Mentos. Strange.
The bodies of two men trapped in an emergency bunker at Indonesia's rumbling Mount Merapi volcano have been found after they were effectively baked to death.(AFP/Tarko Sudiarno)
An Indonesian search and rescue crew looks into the opening of a volcano bunker covered by more than 2 meters (yards) of volcanic debris after Thursday's eruption of Mount Merapi Friday June 16, 2006 in Bebeng village, outside Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Two men who sought shelter from erupting Mount Merapi in an emergency bunker on its fiery slopes were found burned to death on Friday, one immersed in a bathtub where he had tried to escape the heat, an official said. (AP Photo/Susetyo Nugroho)