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Mount Ruang's crater spewing hot lava and smoke after the volcano in Indonesia erupted five times, forcing authorities to evacuate thousands of people and issue a warning about
The crater flamed with lava against a backdrop of lightning bolts overnight after erupting four times, pushing an ash column more than a mile into the sky and forcing authorities to raise its alert level to the highest of a four-tiered system
Houses on the neighbouring remote island of Tagulandang were riddled with holes from falling volcanic rocks
Mount Ruang
Ruang is the southernmost stratovolcano in the Sangihe Islands arc, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
The summit contains a partial lava dome and reaches some 725 metres in altitude.
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