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Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in Indonesia broke out on Wednesday with plumes of giant ashes and smoke after forcing the evacuations of villages and flight cancellations, including towards and from the island of the Bali complex.
Several eruptions sent ashes up to 5,000 meters in the sky on Tuesday evening to Wednesday afternoon. An eruption on Tuesday afternoon sent thick gray clouds to 10,000 meters in the sky which extended into a cloud of ash in the shape of visible mushrooms up to 150 kilometers.
Look | Massive clouds on Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki:
A video of eyewitness in Indonesia captured the sight of a huge ash cloud dominating Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki. The Volcanology Agency of Indonesia claims that the cloud was 11 kilometers high.
The eruption alert was noted on Tuesday at the highest level, and the danger area where people are recommended to leave have been extended eight kilometers from the crater.
The police also evacuated from Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, watching after seven kilometers from the crater to avoid falling into the eruption in the eruption. No victim has been reported.
Ash and the debris fell into a number of places outside the danger area, including the villages of Boru, Hewa and Watobuku. Certain residents of the village of Nurabelen in the Ile Bura Subistrict fled to evacuation sites in Konga to avoid the impact of the eruption, the National Agency for Disaster Management said in a press release.
“Some residents have also evacuated to the village of Nileknoheng, 12 kilometers from the crater,” said Abdul Muhari, spokesperson for the national disaster management agency.
On Wednesday, dozens of flights were canceled, in particular those connecting Bali to cities in Australia, Malaysia, India and China, according to the website of the I Gusti Ngurah Rai international airport. Volcanic ashs may present a risk for flat engines.
Flights have also been canceled towards and from Labuan Bajo International Airport, another tourist destination on the island of Flores, the province of Nusa Tenggara Est. The airport is still working.
Cancellations and delays affected thousands of travelers.
The Australian carrier Jetstar, which flies daily between the tourist hotspot and several Australian cities, said that the ash cloud should be erased by the end of Wednesday and that its services would be reprogrammed.
Air New Zealand canceled a return trip to Auckland and will read customers on the next available service, the airline said in a statement on Wednesday. Flights to New Delhi, Singapore and Pudong, China, were also canceled due to the volcano, according to information on the website of Denpasar airport in Bali.
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki 1,584 meters is a twin volcano with Mont Lewotobi Peempuan in the Timur Flores district.
The volcano had several eruptions, and its level of danger and its prohibited area have changed several times before being noted at the highest level on Tuesday.
A Mont Lewotobi Laki-Laki eruption in November killed nine people and injured dozens. He also broke out in March.
Indonesia is an archipelago of 270 million people with frequent seismic activity. It has 120 active volcanoes and is located along “Ring of Fire”, a series of seismic straw -shaped lines surrounding the Pacific basin.
