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Disaster tourism: bitter lifeline for mud volcano survivors

by Nick Perry SIDOARJO , Indonesia (AFP) — Harwati forces a smile as she guides visitors around a bubbling mud volcano in Indonesia, pausing as they snap selfies on the bleak wasteland she once called home. These disaster tourists are a lifeline for the single mother who lost everything when the earth beneath a paddyfield near her village opened up without warning ten years ago, sending pungent, steaming mud bursting out, unabated. The mudflow buried […]