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Indonesia Raises Alert Level for Bali’s Mount Agung Volcano

Jakarta(November 27, 2017): Indonesia has raised the alert for Bali’s Mount Agung volcano to the highest level of four and asked residents to immediately evacuate areas near the summit, warning of the “imminent” risk of a larger eruption.

Flights were diverted from the island’s airport following the warning and the presence of volcanic ash from the erupting Agung.“Continuing plumes of smoke are occasionally accompanied by explosive eruptions and the sound of weak blasts that can be heard up to 12 km (seven miles) from the peak,” the Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB) said.Agung rises majestically over eastern Bali at a height of just over 3,000 metres. When it last erupted in 1963 it killed more than 1,000 people and razed several villages.

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