Volcanic ash blankets villages near Indonesian volcano
Residents are wearing masks to protect their paths in Indonesia and green rice fields in Indonesia, like Lewotobi Laki Laki explosions for a second straight day.
On Tuesday, the explosion at dawn, lava and ash clouds up to 4 km height.
This followed a explosion on Monday, a explosion of an evening explosion of 18 km volcanic material column and lava spreading to the sky and sending 13km volcanic ash.
Photographs and videos circulating on social media showed that terrible inhabitants ran for their lives under ash and gravel rain, and the drivers struggled to drive motorcycles and cars in a reduced visibility as they became a mushroom -shaped shape of the ash clouds coming from the explosion on Monday.
National Disaster Agency spokesman Abdul Muhari, no loss of the latest explosions of the volcano, which has been at the highest warning level since June 18th.
Muhari, said in a statement, “Volkan people around the end of 2023 since the explosions more frequent as the explosions became more and more influence of the impact of how to minimize the impact of how to understand more and more.” He said.
According to the local disaster management agency, Volcano’s explosions on Flores Island affected more than 10,000 people in 10 villages in East Flores and Sikka regions.
Thick volcanic ash and rocks, roads and green rice fields are converted into gray thick mud and rocks Nawakote, Klangote, Hokeng Jaya, Pipe, Pululanera and Wulanggitang villages reportedly fell.
Authorities distributed 50,000 masks and urged the residents to limit their outdoor activities to protect themselves from volcanic materials.
The explosion of Lewotobi Laki Laki watched the explosion of nine people in November 2024, and dozens of wounded.
Muhari said that two airports in Maumere and Larantuka cities in East Nusa Tenggara were closed on Tuesday.
Ngurah Rai International Airport on the Island of Plant and dozens of flights from them, Australian carriers Virgin Australia and Jetstar, including the explosion on Monday, including the explosion, but the airport spokesman Ahmad Syaugi Shahab, the airport of the airport to show that the volcanic ash did not affect the airport of Bali.
Indonesia has 120 active volcanoes and sits along the “Fire ring”, a seismic fault line series of horseshoes surrounding the Pacific Basin.
