Residents on the Indonesian island of Java have been fleeing a vast plume of ash as an active volcano erupted for the second time in months.
No casualties have yet been reported and evacuations are under way, officials said.
Witnesses said a thick rain of volcanic ash from Mt Semeru was blotting out the Sun in two local districts.
Meanwhile a monitoring body issued a warning to airlines of an ash cloud rising up to 15,000m (50,000 ft).
Thoriqul Haq, district head of Lumajang near Semeru, told Reuters that a road and bridge linking Lumajang and the nearby city of Malang had been severed.
“This has been a very pressing, rapid condition since it erupted,” he said.
