MANADO: Indonesia’s remote Mount Ruang volcano erupted several times again on Tuesday, the country’s volcanology agency said, forcing evacuations, the closure of a nearby international airport and the raising of the alert level to its highest.
Authorities had warned the threat from the volcano was not over after it erupted more than half a dozen times this month, sparking the evacuation of more than 6,000 people.Ruang, located in Indonesia’s outermost region of North Sulawesi province, erupted at around 01:15 am local time and twice more Tuesday morning, the volcanology agency said in a statement.
The agency also re-instated a six-kilometre exclusion zone and said locals should be aware of “the potential for ejections of incandescent rocks, hot clouds and tsunamis due to eruption material entering the sea”.Images released by the agency showed a molten red column bursting into the sky, a large ash cloud spilling from the crater and burning embers near local houses.Some had returned to their homes after the emergency response status ended on Monday, an AFP journalist said.
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