Mount Etna erupts sending tourists fleeing for lives as volcano explodes into life & smoke plume rises from mountain
MOUNT Etna has dramatically erupted, sending tourists fleeing for their lives with smoke billowing from the mountain.
The highest active volcano in Europe began to erupt this morning in Italy's Sicily.
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Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said: "Over the past few hours, the activity flagged in the previous statement issued at 4.14am (3.14am BST) has carried on with strombolian explosions of growing intensity that, at the moment, are of strong intensity and nearly continuous."
In the past, Etna's eruptions have caused nearby towns to be covered in black volcanic ash.
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