(4 Nov 2024)
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Wulanggitang District, East Flores, Indonesia – 4 November 2024
1. Various of rescue team putting bodies wrapped in blue plastic into proper bodybags
2. Relatives sitting in front of houses crying
3. Rescue team carrying bodies in bodybags
4. Various of damaged houses
5. SOUNDBITE (Indonesian) Fredy Moat Aeng, Head of Village:
"Based on the direction of the volcano observation post officers, residents of the 3 affected villages including Hokpeng Jaya village are not allowed to do activities and must leave the area and they have now been evacuated to three evacuation points."
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Indonesia’s National Disaster Management Agency said Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.
The eruption at Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki around midnight spewed thick brownish ash as high as 2,000 meters (6,500 feet) into the air and hot ashes hit several villages, burning down houses including a convent of Catholic nuns, according to an official at the Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki monitoring post.
He said volcanic material was thrown up to 6 kilometers (3.7 miles) from its crater, blanketing nearby villages and towns with tons of volcanic debris and forcing residents to flee.
Rescuers were still searching for more bodies buried under collapsed houses, said a National Disaster Management Agency’s spokesperson.
The spokesperson said at least 10,000 people have been affected by the eruption in six villages of Wulanggitang District, and four villages in Ile Bura district. Some have fled to relatives’ houses while the local government is readying schools to use as temporary shelters.
Indonesia’s volcano monitoring agency increased the volcano’s alert status to the highest level and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 7-kilometer (4.3-mile) radius after midnight on Monday as eruptions became more frequent.
Lewotobi Laki-laki is one of a pair of stratovolcanoes in the East Flores district of East Nusa Tenggara province known locally as the husband — “Laki-laki” means man — and wife mountains. Its mate is Lewotobi Perempuan, or woman.
About 6,500 people were evacuated in January after Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki began erupting, spewing thick clouds and forcing the government to close the island’s Frans Seda Airport. No casualties or major damages were reported, but the airport has remained closed since then due to seismic activity.
It’s Indonesia’s second volcanic eruption in as many weeks. West Sumatra province’s Mount Marapi, one of the country’s most active volcanos, erupted on Oct. 27, spewing thick columns of ash at least three times and blanketing nearby villages with debris, but no casualties were reported.
Lewotobi Laki-laki is one of the 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, an archipelago of 280 million people. The country is prone to earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity because it sits along the “Ring of Fire,” a horseshoe-shaped series of seismic fault lines around the Pacific Ocean.
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