Hundreds Missing After Indonesian Volcano Ash Eruption

World News Rudolph Rodriquez
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The Indonesian authorities are in the search of a couple hundred tourists after an event on Mount Barujari situated on the Lombok island threw out a massive amount of ash into the air evacuating this way more than 1,100 people, said the country’s disaster agency on Wednesday.

The volcano, which is also known under the name of Child of Rinjani, is known for erupting within the caldera of Mount Rinjani without any warning the other day, which caused many flights to delay in Lombok and close to Bali. The height of the ash cloud reached about 2,000 meters.

The spokesman from Disaster Mitigation Agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, stated that almost 400 foreigners and tourists from the area were registered starting this Sunday for climbing the mountain, who left from the Sembalun monitoring post, for almost 11 kilometers away from the crater.

‘We are still searching for about 389 other tourists, mostly foreign tourists, to find out their condition and to evacuate them immediately,’ said Nugroho.

There have been no injuries reports after the eruption.

The eruption canceled flights for more than a few hours at the Ngurah Rai International Airport from Bali, which is about 135 kilometers away from Lombok, and the airport in Mataram, Selaparang, which is the capital of the province of West Nusa Tenggara, that is located on the Lombok Island.

The trees and farms close to the 3,726-meter volcano were covered in a small layer of ash, nearby towns and villages not being in danger, said Nugroho.

Rinjani is one of the 130 volcanoes that are active in Indonesia. The archipelago is exposed to more earthquakes and volcanic eruptions because of its close location to the ‘Ring of Fire’ from the Pacific.