MAUMERE, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki unleashed towering columns of ash into the air on Thursday, in an even larger eruption than the one that killed nine people and injured dozens of others three days ago.
There were no reports of casualties from the latest eruption as residents living in the danger zone spanning a radius of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) from the crater had been evacuated to other villages, said Kensius Didimus, a local disaster agency official.
The 1,584-meter (5,197-foot) volcano on the remote island of Flores shot billowing columns of ash 11 times on Thursday, with the latest and largest rising 8,000 meters (26,240 feet, nearly 5 miles high), said Hadi Wijaya, the head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.
The volcano had shown less activity since Monday’s deadly eruption killed nine people and injured 64 others.
Monday’s eruption affected more than 10,000…
