Hundreds of tourists missing after volcano erupts in Mount Barujari on Lombok island

Hundreds of tourists are reported to be missing after volcano erupted in Mount Barujari on Lombok island. The authorities in Indonesia are searching for 389 tourists following the eruption of the volcano. It spewed a massive column of ash into the atmosphere and already more than 1,100 have been evacuated.
The column of ash reached nearly 2,000 meters (6,560 feet).
This has been reported in nzherald.co.nz dated 28 September 2016.

The volcano, also known as the Child of Rinjani because it sits within the Mount Rinjani caldera, had erupted without any warning and resulted in delay in flights from airports in Lombok and nearby Bali. It seems as per records, nearly 400 foreign and local tourists had been registered to climb the mountain. They were to set off from Sembalun monitoring post, about 11 kilometers (7 miles) from the crater.
The eruption interrupted flights for several hours at Ngurah Rai International Airport in Bali which is located about 135-Km from Lombok, and Selaparang airport in Mataram, the capital of West Nusa Tenggara province, located on Lombok Island.
Rinjani is one of the 130 active volcanoes in Indonesia and the archipelago regularly faces volcanic eruptions and earthquakes due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire."


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