22 April 2024 , 12:22
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Chinese woman Huang Lihong was posing on the edge of the Ijen Crater in East Java while her husband took photo, when she stumbled and fell 250 feet into the active volcano
An attempt to take a holiday snap went tragically wrong when a tourist plunged into an active volcano to her death as her husband took the picture.
Huang Lihong fell 250ft into the active volcano as she posed on the crater’s edge.
The 31-year-old was on holiday in Indonesia with her husband, Zhang Yong, when she tumbled into the Ijen Crater in Banyuwangi, East Java on April 20, according to local media. It’s understood that Lihong stumbled and fell after catching her clothing on the rock face and vanished down the volcano.
Lihong and Yong had climbed the slope with a local guide so they could watch the sunrise from the volcano’s rim. However, as she posed for the pictures she stumbled which caused her to tumble backwards over the crater’s edge.
One of the released photographs shows Lihong posing on what appears to be the rim of the volcano with one leg raised, with streams of steam and sulphur rising behind her.
Local media reports that she fell 75m (250ft) into the mouth of the volcano and that it took rescuers more than two hours to retrieve her body.
Dwi Putro Sugiarto, the head of the Department of Conservation for the Banyuwangi region, told local media that the incident was an accident and that tourists should always remain safe while scaling Mount Ijen.
Lihong’s body is scheduled to be transported to Bali before it is taken by air back to China.