A REMOTE volcano in Indonesia has erupted again, sending a tower of ash more than five kilometres into the sky.
Thousands were evacuated and an international airport was closed after Mount Ruang erupted several times on Tuesday.
The volcano had already erupted more than half a dozen times this month, forcing more than 6,000 people to flee their homes.
On Tuesday, the alert level was raised to its highest, the country's volcanology agency said.
Ruang, located in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province, erupted about 1.15am local time and twice more on Tuesday morning.
A six-kilometre exclusion zone was established as locals were urged to stay vigilant about "the potential for ejections of incandescent rocks, hot clouds and tsunamis due to eruption material entering the sea".
More than 800 people live on the island of Ruang, most of whom were evacuated following the recent eruptions.
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