Hundreds of tourists missing after volcano erupts on Indonesian island

September 28, 2016 22:09

Indonesian authorities are searching for several hundred tourists after Mount Barujari on Lombok island spewed a massive column of ash into the atmosphere.

More than 1,100 others have been evacuated, the countrys disaster agency said on Wednesday.

The volcano, also known as the Child of Rinjani because it sits within the Mount Rinjani caldera, erupted without warning on Tuesday afternoon, delaying flights from airports in Lombok and nearby Bali.

The ash column reached 2,000 metres.

A Disaster Mitigation Agency spokesman, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, said nearly 400 foreign and local tourists had been registered since Sunday to climb the mountain, leaving from the Sembalun monitoring post, about 11km from the crater.

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