DEVELOPING: Tourists reported missing, injured after volcano erupts on small New Zealand island.
A volcano on a small, uninhabited New Zealand island erupted Monday afternoon, and authorities asked people nearby to avoid the area.
GeoNet agency said a moderate volcanic eruption had occurred and raised its alert level to four, on a scale where five represents a major eruption. Twelve people were killed on the island in 1914 when it was being mined for sulphur. Part of a crater wall collapsed and a landslide destroyed the miners' village and the mine itself.
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