TOKYO: Flights in Japan were cancelled or diverted on Thursday to avoid a cloud of ash and smoke spewing from an erupting volcano in the south.
Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways warned passengers of “a number of cancellations and changed destinations” on routes involving Kumamoto airport because of the 800-metre (2,600-foot) column of debris from Mount Aso.
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