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Bali volcano Mount Agung erupts again, sending 700 fleeing lava and explosions
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The Mount Agung volcano on Bali has erupted again, ejecting a 2,000-metre column of thick ash, and hurling lava down its slopes.
The Indonesian geological agency's Agung-monitoring post said explosions from the mountain began just after 9:00pm on Monday and lasted more than seven minutes.
"Flares of incandescent lava" reached two kilometres from the crater, it said, setting fire to forests at high elevation on the mountain.
Nearly 700 people fled Banjar Galih village, about 6km from the crater, to an evacuation centre, resident Ketut Budi said.
"I saw smoke rising and the volcano rumbled very loud," he said.
"We came here with motorcycles and those with cars helped carry other people."
The volcano was periodically erupting ash, which was drifting west. The island's airport, to the south, was still operating normally.
National Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said the explosions on Monday night were "thunderous" and hurled white hot rocks from the crater.
It was the volcano's first explosive eruption since a dramatic increase in activity last year that temporarily forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people.
The alert status for Agung was not from its second-highest level, and the exclusion zone around the crater remained at 4km.
Bali's international airport closed for half a day on Friday because of volcanic ash from Agung, disrupting travel for tens of thousands.
The latest eruption was "strombolian," the geological agency said, which is the mildest type of explosive volcanic eruption.
It warned people living near rivers to exercise caution, particularly in wet weather, because of the risk of fast-moving flows of muddy volcanic debris.
AP
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