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A volcano erupted several times in Indonesia's outermost region Wednesday, with authorities raising the alert level to its highest point after the dome spewed a column of smoke more than a mile into the sky and forced hundreds to evacuate., a stratovolcano in North Sulawesi Province, first erupted at 9:45 pm on Tuesday and four times throughout Wednesday, the country's volcanology agency said.
Authorities also widened a four-kilometre exclusion zone to six kilometres on Wednesday evening around the crater. The volcanology agency said residents of Tagulandang must be evacuated outside the six-kilometre radius by Wednesday evening. Ruang's initial eruption late Tuesday pushed an ash column two kilometres into the sky, with the second eruption pushing it to 2.5 kilometres, Muhammad Wafid, head of the geological agency said in a statement earlier Wednesday.
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