(Wayan Kartika/via Reuters)JAKARTA: A volcano erupted on the Indonesian holiday island of Bali, causing some overnight flight cancellations to and from Australia as an ash cloud rose into the sky, officials said on Saturday. Authorities had 50,000 masks available as a precaution, although the alert level on the volcano remained unchanged and there had been no evacuations. Photographs of Agung overnight showed an ash column and glowing lava in the crater of the volcano, which rises majestically over eastern Bali at a height of just over 3,000 metres. In late 2017, authorities raised the alert level on Agung after a spike in activity, triggering evacuations and travel chaos at the time. The alert level has since been lowered but the rumbling Agung has erupted intermittently since then, occasionally disrupting flights.

Source: Bangkok Post May 25, 2019 09:33 UTC