Fiery lava and rocks hit the nearest settlements around 4 kilometers from the crater, burning and damaging residents' houses

The Indonesian government aims to evacuate at least 16,000 residents from villages around the active Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano that erupted and killed nine people and damaged thousands of houses,

Lava and fiery rocks were thrown up to 6km from Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki's crater in East Nusa Tenggara province Indonesia's National Disaster Management Agency said on Monday that at least 10 people have died as a series of volcanic eruptions widens on the remote island of Flores.