Indonesia’s Mount Sinabung erupted Monday, sending a column of volcanic materials as high as 16,400 feet into the sky and depositing ash on villages. Smoke and ashes erupting from the volcano plunged local communities into darkness with a thick layer of debris.
It is the second eruption since Saturday after the volcano sat dormant for more than a year. The eruption on the island of Sumatra was the second since Saturday.
The volcano has been rumbling since 2010 and saw a deadly eruption in 2016.
Activity had picked up in recent days, including a pair of smaller eruptions at the weekend.
The villagers have been advised to stay 5 kilometres from the crater’s mouth.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths but authorities warned of possible lava flows and more eruptions.
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Sinabung had roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years and that it again erupted once more in 2013.
In 2016, seven people died in one of the eruptions and 16 people were killed in 2014.
In 2018, 400 people were killed due in an underwater landslide and tsunami as a volcano in the strait between Java and Sumatra islands erupted.