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A sudden eruption at Indonesia’s Mount Dukono has killed three hikers, authorities said, turning a trek on Halmahera island into a deadly disaster. The blast hurled an ash plume about 10km into the sky. Officials said no towns or villages were close enough to face an immediate danger. Twenty hikers were on the volcano’s slopes when the eruption struck, a local police chief told reporters at a volcano monitoring station in Mamuya village. He said nine were from Singapore and the others were Indonesian. A tour guide who was…