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A highly progressive volcano successful eastbound Indonesia erupted respective times connected Friday (June 5, 2026), spewing towering ash columns into the entity and forcing a section airdrome to close, authorities said.
Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki connected Flores Island erupted astatine 11:15 a.m. (0315 GMT), sending volcanic worldly 2.5 kilometres (1.6 miles) into the air, the nationalist volcanology bureau said successful a statement.
It came aft respective different eruptions earlier connected Friday (June 5, 2026).
Lewotobi Laki-Laki falls nether Indonesia’s second-highest alert level for volcanic activity, with a five-kilometre exclusion portion successful unit astir its crater.
The volcanology bureau said residents adjacent rivers should besides stay connected alert for hazardous floods of volcanic material, known arsenic lahar, if dense rainfall occurs.
Authorities person suspended operations astatine a section airdrome successful the municipality of Maumere, astir 60 kilometres westbound of Lewotobi Laki-Laki, affecting 5 home flights, airdrome caput Partahian Panjaitan told AFP.
Laki-Laki means “man” successful Indonesian, and the 1,584-metre (5,197-foot) volcano is twinned with a calmer 1,703-metre 1 named Perempuan aft the Indonesian connection for “woman”.
Last July, Lewotobi Laki-Laki spewed a colossal 18-kilometre operation of ash, forcing the cancellation of 24 flights astatine the planetary airdrome connected the edifice land of Bali.
Indonesia, a immense archipelago nation, experiences predominant seismic and volcanic enactment owed to its presumption connected the Pacific “Ring of Fire”.
