Officials issued a red alert and ordered Bali residents to evacuate after the Mount Agung volcano erupted, blasting ash up to 5.6 miles high. Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation raised its alert from orange to red, its highest level, early Monday morning local time, the Associated Press reported. Some 40,000 people were evacuated to temporary shelters over the weekend but another 60,000 would still have to move, officials said. They targeted 224 locations for evacuation and told everyone within six miles of Mount Agung to leave. The last eruption of Mount Agung occurred in 1963 and some 1,000 people were killed after little warning an eruption was about to occur.

Source: Huffington Post November 27, 2017 02:15 UTC