JAKARTA, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) -- Thousands of Balineses have left evacuation centers and returned to their houses located in dangerous zone as a volcano remains in the highest alert in Bali, an official of Indonesian disaster agency said on Thursday.
"There are thousands of people returning to their home in red zone," spokesman of the agency Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a statement on Thursday.
The evacuation zone reaches 12 km from the crater of the Mount Agung volcano in the north, northeast, south, southeast and southwest, according to the country's volcanologists.
Sutopo did not elaborate the precise figure of the people entering the dangerous area, but said that the number of evacuee is now 134,500 people in 390 evacuation centers.
That compares with the data of the agency on Oct. 5 of 146,769 displaced persons in 247 evacuation centers.
About 1,100 people were killed in the last eruption of Mount Agung volcano in 1963.
