Volcano erupts on Iceland with magma spewing from huge new fissure as tourists evacuated from popular hols resort
Visitors were cleared from surrounding towns and a luxury hotel as lava began spewing from a huge new fissure in the Sundhnúkur volcano, near the popular town of Grindavik.
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The eruption - the volcano's ninth since December 2023 - happened in the early hours of this morning just after the mass evacuation.
Footage of the scene shows a boiling orange rip in the earth with a scorching sheet of magma flowing out.
Lava and thick white smoke can be seen spewing up into the air.
A campsite and the Blue Lagoon Iceland - a five-star hotel resort - were evacuated, along with most of the town of Grindavík.
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