AMAZING images show the moment when a lightning strike stopped near the eruption of Mount Sinabung in Indonesia.
A storm erupted in the sky when the eruption sent a cloud of hot ash to 16,400 feet in the sky.
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The sky was lit up in brilliant purple in a dusty haze.
The images were taken a few days after the big eruption in Karo, North Sumatra, on Tuesday – the first big one since August last year.
He started blowing up debris early in the morning, according to a local geological agency, which recorded 13 bursts.
Residents were photographed fleeing the area as they were instructed to avoid a five-kilometer radius around the crater.
Others were amazed by the clouds of smoke.
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Molten lava was also seen spilling out of the village of Naman Teran while the area was covered with dense volcanic ash.
Roy Bangun, 41, said: “Residents are scared, many are staying at home to avoid dense volcanic ash.”
Muhammad Nurul Asrori, a monitoring officer in Sinabung, said Tuesday’s cloud of smoke and ash was the biggest he has seen since 2010.
“The large lava dome could explode at any time, causing a major avalanche of hot clouds,” he said.
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Sinabung, an 8,070-foot volcano, lay dormant for centuries before coming back to life in 2010, when an eruption killed two people.
After another period of inactivity, it erupted again in 2013 and has remained highly active ever since.
An outbreak in 2014 killed at least 16 people, while seven died in a 2016 explosion.
No casualties were reported this week, but an official had asked people to stay at least 3 km from the crater, Indonesia’s Center for Volcanology and Geological Hazards Mitigation said.
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The area is in the “Ring of Fire” – a belt of tectonic plates that surround the Pacific Ocean.
The ring is responsible for 80% of world seismic activity.
Mount Merapi on the island of Java, one of the most active volcanoes in the world, also erupted this week, emitting lava on Monday.