Rescuers race to save animals from Bali volcano

This photograph taken on September 29, 2017 shows an NGO worker carrying a sick monkey after they sedated and prepared to evacuate it from a villager's house in Sideman, an area close to Mount Agung in Karangasem Regency on the Indonesian resort island of Bali. -AFP

KARANGASEM: Volunteers are risking their lives to save tens of thousands of animals left at the mercy of a rumbling volcano on the tourist island of Bali, making perilous trips into the red zone to relocate them.

Mount Agung, about 75 kilometres (47 miles) from the resort hub of Kuta, has been shaking since August, causing some 144,000 people to evacuate their homes over the past week as experts warn an eruption could be imminent.