Tourists flee as Mount Etna erupts in Sicily
Milan | Sicily's Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometres into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population.
The event was captured in video and photos that went viral on social media. Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna's flanks, Italian media reported.
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Tourists run for cover as Italy's Mount Etna erupts in fiery show of smoke and ash
Milan: Sicily's Mount Etna has put on a fiery show, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometres into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population. The level of alert due to the volcanic activity was raised at the Catania airport, but no immediate interruptions were reported. An official update on Monday (Tuesday AEST) declared the ash cloud emission had ended by the afternoon. Italy's INGV National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said the spectacle on Europe's most active volcano was caused when part of the south-east crater collapsed, resulting in hot lava flows. It was the 14th eruptive phase in recent months. The area of danger was confined to the summit of Etna, which was closed to tourists as a precaution, according to Stefano Branca, an INGV official in Catania. Sicily's President, Renato Schifani, said lava flows emitted in the eruption had not passed the natural containment area 'and posed no danger to the population'. The event was captured on video and in photos that went viral on social media. Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna's flanks, Italian media reported. Video showed tourists running along a path on the flank of the vast volcano with smoke billowing some distance in the background. Excursions are popular on Etna, which is some 3300 metres high, with a surface area of some 1200 square kilometres. One student, from Trinity College in Dublin, told Irish broadcaster RTE News that her group had just arrived when the volcano erupted, London's Telegraph reported, prompting their tour guides to yell at them to get back in the minibus.
AU Financial Review
5 days ago
- AU Financial Review
Tourists flee as Mount Etna erupts in Sicily
Milan | Sicily's Mount Etna put on a fiery show Monday, sending a cloud of smoke and ash several kilometres into the air, but officials said the activity posed no danger to the population. The event was captured in video and photos that went viral on social media. Tremors from the eruption were widely felt in the towns and villages on Mount Etna's flanks, Italian media reported. AP
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31-05-2025
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Death toll rises in Nigeria town submerged in floods
The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger has risen to at least 151, the local emergency service says, amid efforts to find more victims. Torrents of pre-dawn rain early on Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa, nearly 380 kilometres west of Abuja and a major trading and transportation hub where northern Nigerian farmers sell beans, onions and other food to traders from the south. As well as the rising death toll, 11 people were injured and more than 3000 people were displaced, the official added. At least 500 households across three communities were affected by the sudden and intense flood that built rapidly in about five hours, leaving roofs barely visible and surviving residents waist-deep in water, trying to salvage what they could and rescue others. Husseini said two roads were washed away and two bridges collapsed. In a statement on Friday night, President Bola Tinubu expressed condolences and said he had directed the activation of an emergency response to support victims and "accelerate" recovery. He said that security agencies have also been asked to assist in emergency operations, which remain under way amid concerns that more bodies could be recovered in remote areas. "Relief materials and temporary shelter assistance are being deployed without delay," the president said, promising "no Nigerian affected will be left behind or unheard of". Flooding is common during Nigeria's wet season. Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season. But this flood has been particularly deadly in Mokwa, a farming region near the banks of the River Niger. Mokwa community leader Aliki Musa told the AP the villagers were not used to such flooding. The chairman of the Mokwa local government area, Jibril Muregi, told local news website Premium Times that construction of flood-control works was long overdue. The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger has risen to at least 151, the local emergency service says, amid efforts to find more victims. Torrents of pre-dawn rain early on Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa, nearly 380 kilometres west of Abuja and a major trading and transportation hub where northern Nigerian farmers sell beans, onions and other food to traders from the south. As well as the rising death toll, 11 people were injured and more than 3000 people were displaced, the official added. At least 500 households across three communities were affected by the sudden and intense flood that built rapidly in about five hours, leaving roofs barely visible and surviving residents waist-deep in water, trying to salvage what they could and rescue others. Husseini said two roads were washed away and two bridges collapsed. In a statement on Friday night, President Bola Tinubu expressed condolences and said he had directed the activation of an emergency response to support victims and "accelerate" recovery. He said that security agencies have also been asked to assist in emergency operations, which remain under way amid concerns that more bodies could be recovered in remote areas. "Relief materials and temporary shelter assistance are being deployed without delay," the president said, promising "no Nigerian affected will be left behind or unheard of". Flooding is common during Nigeria's wet season. Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season. But this flood has been particularly deadly in Mokwa, a farming region near the banks of the River Niger. Mokwa community leader Aliki Musa told the AP the villagers were not used to such flooding. The chairman of the Mokwa local government area, Jibril Muregi, told local news website Premium Times that construction of flood-control works was long overdue. The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger has risen to at least 151, the local emergency service says, amid efforts to find more victims. Torrents of pre-dawn rain early on Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa, nearly 380 kilometres west of Abuja and a major trading and transportation hub where northern Nigerian farmers sell beans, onions and other food to traders from the south. As well as the rising death toll, 11 people were injured and more than 3000 people were displaced, the official added. At least 500 households across three communities were affected by the sudden and intense flood that built rapidly in about five hours, leaving roofs barely visible and surviving residents waist-deep in water, trying to salvage what they could and rescue others. Husseini said two roads were washed away and two bridges collapsed. In a statement on Friday night, President Bola Tinubu expressed condolences and said he had directed the activation of an emergency response to support victims and "accelerate" recovery. He said that security agencies have also been asked to assist in emergency operations, which remain under way amid concerns that more bodies could be recovered in remote areas. "Relief materials and temporary shelter assistance are being deployed without delay," the president said, promising "no Nigerian affected will be left behind or unheard of". Flooding is common during Nigeria's wet season. Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season. But this flood has been particularly deadly in Mokwa, a farming region near the banks of the River Niger. Mokwa community leader Aliki Musa told the AP the villagers were not used to such flooding. The chairman of the Mokwa local government area, Jibril Muregi, told local news website Premium Times that construction of flood-control works was long overdue. The death toll from devastating flooding in a market town in Nigeria's north-central state of Niger has risen to at least 151, the local emergency service says, amid efforts to find more victims. Torrents of pre-dawn rain early on Thursday unleashed the devastating flood on Mokwa, nearly 380 kilometres west of Abuja and a major trading and transportation hub where northern Nigerian farmers sell beans, onions and other food to traders from the south. As well as the rising death toll, 11 people were injured and more than 3000 people were displaced, the official added. At least 500 households across three communities were affected by the sudden and intense flood that built rapidly in about five hours, leaving roofs barely visible and surviving residents waist-deep in water, trying to salvage what they could and rescue others. Husseini said two roads were washed away and two bridges collapsed. In a statement on Friday night, President Bola Tinubu expressed condolences and said he had directed the activation of an emergency response to support victims and "accelerate" recovery. He said that security agencies have also been asked to assist in emergency operations, which remain under way amid concerns that more bodies could be recovered in remote areas. "Relief materials and temporary shelter assistance are being deployed without delay," the president said, promising "no Nigerian affected will be left behind or unheard of". Flooding is common during Nigeria's wet season. Communities in northern Nigeria have been experiencing prolonged dry spells worsened by climate change and excessive rainfall that leads to severe flooding during the brief wet season. But this flood has been particularly deadly in Mokwa, a farming region near the banks of the River Niger. Mokwa community leader Aliki Musa told the AP the villagers were not used to such flooding. The chairman of the Mokwa local government area, Jibril Muregi, told local news website Premium Times that construction of flood-control works was long overdue.
