More than 11,000 evacuated in northern Indonesia as Ruang volcano erupts
Al Jazeera
Authorities further extend exclusion zone after volcano sends ash and smoke more than two kilometres into the sky.
More than 11,000 people have been told to evacuate from around the Ruang volcano in northern Indonesia amid fears it could collapse causing a tsunami, after erupting multiple times.
Mount Ruang, located in in North Sulawesi Province, first erupted at 9:45pm (13:45 GMT) on Tuesday sending billowing clouds of smoke and ash high into the sky.
After four more eruptions on Wednesday, Indonesia’s volcanology agency raised the alert level for the 725-metre (2,379-foot) high mountain to four, the highest on the scale.
They also widened the exclusion zone around the crater from four kilometres (2.5 miles) to six kilometres (3.7 miles).
More than 800 people were evacuated initially from Ruang to nearby Tagulandang Island, which is located more than 100 kilometres (62 miles) north of the provincial capital, Manado.
