Indonesia's Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupts again as residents to relocate from its danger zone

MAUMERE, Indonesia -- Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki erupted again Thursday, spewing a file of basking clouds that roseate 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) from its peak, three days aft a midnight eruption killed 9 group and injured dozens of others.

There was nary contiguous study of casualties from nan latest eruption.

The 1,584-meter (5,197-foot) volcano connected Indonesia’s distant land of Flores unleashed clouds of grey basking ash Thursday. The substance of rock, lava and state was thrown up to 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) from its crater, Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Disaster Mitigation said successful a statement.

The volcano lulled successful activity since Monday’s deadly eruption killed 9 group and injured 64 others.

Monday's eruption affected much than 10,000 group successful 10 villages. About 4,400 villagers moved into makeshift emergency shelters aft nan eruption, which destroyed 7 schools, astir 2 twelve houses and a convent connected nan majority-Catholic island.

The country’s volcano monitoring agency accrued Lewotobi Laki Laki's alert position to nan highest level and much than doubled nan removal area to a 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) radius since then, prohibiting immoderate activity successful that area.

Authorities warned nan thousands of group who fled not to return home, arsenic nan authorities planned to move astir 16,000 residents retired of nan threat zone, said National Disaster Management Agency caput Suharyanto, who for illustration galore Indonesians uses a azygous name.

“Permanent relocation is considered arsenic a semipermanent mitigation measurement to expect eruption successful nan future,” Suharyanto told reporters aft visiting nan devastated areas Thursday.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is 1 of a brace of stratovolcanoes successful nan East Flores territory of East Nusa Tenggara province, known locally arsenic nan husband-and-wife mountains. “Laki laki” intends man, while its mate is Lewotobi Perempuan, aliases woman.

About 6,500 group were evacuated successful January aft Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki began erupting, spewing heavy clouds and forcing nan authorities to adjacent nan island’s Fransiskus Xaverius Seda Airport. No casualties aliases awesome harm were reported, but nan airdrome has remained closed since past owed to seismic activity.

On Oct. 27, West Sumatra province’s Mount Marapi — 1 of nan country’s astir progressive volcanos — erupted, spewing heavy columns of ash astatine slightest 3 times and blanketing adjacent villages pinch debris. No casualties were reported.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is 1 of nan 120 progressive volcanoes successful Indonesia, an archipelago of 280 cardinal people. The state is prone to earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity because it sits on nan “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped bid of seismic responsibility lines astir nan Pacific Ocean.

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Karmini reported from Jakarta. Associated Press journalists Edna Tarigan and Andi Jatmiko contributed to this report.