Various flights to and from bali have been canceled after Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki volcano began to spew ash up to 9 kilometers into the sky.

jet star, Qantas and virgin Australia grounded more than a dozen flights on Tuesday and Wednesday scheduled to arrive or depart Denpasar airport, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded, after the volcanic eruption near he popular tourist destination in Indonesia.

At least 10 people died and several others were injured last week in the volcanic eruption on the Indonesian island of Flores, located about 500 kilometers east of Bali.

The volcano has been spewing steaming rock, lava and hot, thumb-sized fragments of gravel and ash from the crater since last week, affecting more than 10,000 people in 10 villages. Nearly 6,000 villagers moved to makeshift emergency shelters after the eruption, which destroyed seven schools, nearly two dozen homes and a convent on the majority-Catholic island.

Jetstar said all flights to and from Denpasar airport have been canceled until at least 2:00 p.m. (local time) on Wednesday. “Affected customers have been notified directly and provided a range of options,” the airline said in a statement.

He added that options included “rebooking your trip free of charge or canceling your reservations and getting a voucher for the value of what was not traveled.”

The airline said it intended to operate at least two additional return services between Australia and Bali on Wednesday to clear the backlog of stranded passengers at the airport.

Virgin Airlines said it canceled at least 10 flights in and out of Indonesia for Wednesday due to “adverse weather.”

“The safety of our guests and crew is our top priority. Adverse weather due to the volcano in Indonesia has caused virgin australia canceling all flights in and out of Denpasar today,” he added.

Two Qantas return flights scheduled to go from Australia to Denpasar have been delayed so far. The airline will reportedly resume operations from Sydney International Airport at around 4:30 pm (local time) on Wednesday.

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People have taken to social media to share their ordeal and complaints of not receiving food or shelter.

Mark Wilson, who was heading to Bali to celebrate his 50th wedding anniversary, said the flight remained on the tarmac for about an hour on Tuesday before passengers were informed they had to disembark.

“I’d like to think we’ll get there… But I have a bad feeling,” said the tourist from Gippsland. Sydney Morning Herald.

The 1,584-meter-high volcano on the remote island of Flores has spewed billowing columns of ash dozens of times since last Thursday, said Hadi Wijaya, director of the Center for Volcanology and Geological Disaster Mitigation.

While visiting the devastated areas, officials found craters where rocks fell during the eruptions, up to 13 meters wide and 5 meters deep, in several places, including a destroyed school.

The country’s volcano monitoring agency raised Lewotobi Laki Laki’s alert status to the highest level and more than doubled the exclusion zone to a 7km radius last week, prohibiting any activity in that area.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is one of a pair of stratovolcanoes in East Nusa Tenggara province, known locally as the Husband and Wife Mountains. “Laki laki” means man, while his partner is Lewotobi Perempuan, or woman.

Lewotobi Laki Laki is one of 120 active volcanoes in Indonesia, an archipelago of 280 million people. The country is prone to earthquakes, landslides and volcanic activity because it lies along the “Ring of Fire,” a series of horseshoe-shaped seismic faults around the Pacific Ocean.