Indonesian volcano's ash cloud strands holidaymakers
- 9 years ago
Thousands of tourists - and one Indian gangster - are stranded on three Indonesian islands after ash from the Mount Rinjani volcano forced the closure of airports and blanketed villages and farmlands.
The eruption shut down flights at Ngurah Rai airport on Bali , Selaparang airport on Lombok and Blimbingsari airport in Banyuwangi, on the eastern end of Java - the largest and most populous of Indonesia's thousands of islands.
The Indonesian government's head of volcano observation in eastern Indonesia, Devy Kamil Syahbana, said a cylindrical cone inside Rinjani's caldera had an "opening eruption" on 25 October and was continuing to spew ash and debris.
Air traffic is regularly disrupted by volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, which sits on a belt of seismic activity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean and is home to the highest number of active volcanoes in the world, around 130.
The eruption shut down flights at Ngurah Rai airport on Bali , Selaparang airport on Lombok and Blimbingsari airport in Banyuwangi, on the eastern end of Java - the largest and most populous of Indonesia's thousands of islands.
The Indonesian government's head of volcano observation in eastern Indonesia, Devy Kamil Syahbana, said a cylindrical cone inside Rinjani's caldera had an "opening eruption" on 25 October and was continuing to spew ash and debris.
Air traffic is regularly disrupted by volcanic eruptions in Indonesia, which sits on a belt of seismic activity running around the basin of the Pacific Ocean and is home to the highest number of active volcanoes in the world, around 130.