The Foreign Office has warned UK tourists over fresh no-go areas in parts of Asia. UK tourists and holidaymakers have been issued a travel warning for Indonesia as the Foreign Office advises against travel to a specific area in the Far East.
The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) told UK tourists heading out of the European Union for autumn and winter breaks not to visit within seven kilometres of the crater of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki in Indonesia.
Holidaymakers were told: “FCDO advises against all travel to within 7km of the crater of Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki on Flores Island, East Nusa Tenggara Province. This is an exclusion zone put in place by the local authorities. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki erupted on November 3, 2024.”
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Indonesia’s Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki unleashed towering columns of ash into the air on Thursday, in an even larger eruption than the one that killed nine people and injured dozens of others three days ago. There were no reports of casualties from the latest eruption as residents living in the danger zone spanning a radius of 7 kilometers (4.3 miles) from the crater had been evacuated to other villages, said Kensius Didimus, a local disaster agency official.
The 1,584-meter (5,197-foot) volcano on the remote island of Flores shot billowing columns of ash 11 times on Thursday, with the latest and largest rising 8,000 meters (26,240 feet, nearly 5 miles high), said Hadi Wijaya, the head of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.
At least 10 people were killed by the volcanic eruption, with seven villages affected, leading to mass evacuations. The country’s volcanology agency reported seven eruptions on Thursday, with the most powerful ejecting a giant column of ash 8,000m (5 miles) into the air.
Authorities imposed a 7km (4.3 miles) exclusion zone around the volcano on the island of Flores. More than 10,000 people are living in temporary shelters, with authorities warning of potential flash floods and cold lava flows in the coming days.
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