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Manado, Indonesia–Indonesia’s remote Mount Ruang volcano erupted several times again on Tuesday, the country’s volcanology agency said, forcing evacuations, the closure of a nearby international airport and the raising of the alert level to its highest.
Authorities had warned the threat from the volcano was not over after it erupted more than half a dozen times this month, sparking the evacuation of more than 6,000 people. Ruang, located in Indonesia’s outermost region of North Sulawesi province, erupted at around 01:15 a.m. local time and twice more Tuesday morning, the volcanology agency said in a statement.The agency also re-instated a six-kilometer exclusion zone and said locals should be aware of “the potential for ejections of incandescent rocks, hot clouds and tsunamis due to eruption material entering the sea.
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