“THE Mount Agung volcano on the Indonesian tourist island of Bali erupted again on Monday evening, ejecting a 2000-metre-high column of thick ash and hurling lava down its slopes.

At the moment, flights to and from Australia are not affected.

The Indonesian geological agency’s Mount Agung monitoring post said a “loud explosion” from the mountain began just after 9pm.

“Flares of incandescent lava” reached two kilometres from the crater, it said.

The eruption lasted three minutes and 47 seconds, said the National Disaster Mitigation Agency (BNPB).

It said the alert level for Agung has not been raised and the exclusion zone around the crater remains at four kilometres.

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