Updated on: May 8, 2026 / 8:36 PM EDT / CBS/AFP Add CBS News on Google Three hikers — two Singaporeans and a local — who were in an off-limits area died Friday in an eruption of Indonesia's Mount Dukono volcano, officials said. Several others were missing. The eruption on Halmahera island sent an ash cloud about 6 miles into the air, but no towns or villages were close enough to face any immediate threat. Twenty hikers were on the slopes when disaster struck, North Halmahera police chief Erlichson Pasaribu told reporters at a volcano monitoring station in Mamuya village. Nine were from Singapore and the rest were Indonesian, he said. Search and rescue teams prepare to evacuate victims affected by the eruption of Mount Dukono in North Halmahera, Maluku Province, Indonesia, on May 8, 2026. Basarnas/Anadolu via Getty Images "To date, 15 climbers have safely descended," Erlichson said several hours after the early-morning eruption.…