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MOUNT MERAPI, Indonesia (CNN) -- Indonesian authorities have raised the alert status for Mount Merapi, the volatile volcano in central Java, to the highest level after downgrading it in recent days.

The Indonesian Center for Research Technology and Volcanology raised the alert to red from yellow on Tuesday after noticing an increase in activity.

"The status was upgraded at 2 p.m. (0700 GMT) because of the increasing hot clouds," said Triyani, an official at the state-run monitoring center in the city of Yogyakarta, a city of about 500,000 people, in the province of the same name.

Last week, about 11,000 residents living near Mount Merapi were evacuated after hot ash spewed from the volcano's dome.

But those who had returned to their...
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