Lava hurled from volcano on Bali following new eruption
The eruption came just days after the island’s international airport was closed for half a day due to ash from Mount Agung, disrupting travel for thousands
The Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted Monday evening, ejecting a 2,000-metre-high (6,560-foot-high) column of thick ash and hurling lava down its slopes.
The Indonesian geological agency’s Agung monitoring post said a loud explosion from the mountain began just after 9pm and lasted more than seven minutes.
“Flares of incandescent lava” reached 2km (1.2 miles) from the crater, it said.
It said the alert level for Agung has not been raised and the exclusion zone set up around the crater after an eruption late last year remains at 4km (2.5 miles).
Last week, Bali’s international airport closed for half a day due to volcanic ash from Agung, disrupting travel for tens of thousands.