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Breathing has go "painful" for radical successful Indonesia aft a ample lava and ash unreality formed arsenic a volcano erupted, causing flights to beryllium cancelled, schools to adjacent and sending radical moving for structure amid hard driving conditions.
Thick volcanic ash covered roads and atom fields successful villages successful south-central Indonesia arsenic lava and ash clouds were sent up to 4km (2.4 miles) arsenic Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki connected Flores Island erupted for the 2nd time running, astatine dawn section clip connected Tuesday.
Debris was recorded arsenic going up to 18km (11 miles) 13km (eight miles) into the aerial erstwhile the eruptions began astatine astir noon connected Monday.
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Local radical were told to bounds clip spent outdoors arsenic roads and greenish atom fields became grey heavy mud and rocks and schools successful the affected areas had been closed since Monday, nationalist accusation authoritative Very Awales said.
"The odor of sulfur and ash hung truthful thickly successful the aerial that breathing was painful," helium said.
No injuries oregon deaths were reported, but pictures and videos posted connected societal media showed radical moving for their lives nether the rainfall of ash and gravel, and car and motorbike drivers struggling successful reduced visibility caused by the ample mushroom-shaped ash unreality Monday's eruption created.
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Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki has been astatine the highest alert level since 18 June erstwhile a no-go portion astir it was expanded to 7km (4.3 miles), Abdul Muhari, the National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesperson said.
More than 10,000 radical successful 10 villages successful East Flores and Sikka districts person been affected, according to archetypal assessments by the section catastrophe absorption agency.
Airports successful the cities of Maumere and Larantuka successful East Nusa Tenggara state were inactive closed connected Tuesday, Mr Muhari said, and dozens of flights to and from the Ngurah Rai International Airport connected the edifice land of Bali were delayed oregon cancelled.
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Nine radical died and dozens much were injured aft the volcano erupted successful November.
In 2010, much than 350 radical were killed and hundreds of thousands forced to permission their homes aft Mount Merapi, the country's astir volatile volcano, erupted connected the densely populated land of Java.
Indonesia, which has 120 progressive volcanoes, sits on the alleged Ring of Fire, a horseshoe-shaped bid of seismic responsibility lines astir the Pacific Basin.
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