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Mount Etna erupts sending six mile ash cloud into the sky and closing airport - Metro.co.uk

A fresh eruption of Mount Etna sent a huge ash cloud into the sky on Monday
A fresh eruption of Mount Etna sent a huge ash cloud into the sky on Monday (Picture: Splash / Getty)

A fresh eruption of Mount Etna has sent a huge six mile long ash cloud into the sky above Catania in Sicily.

Dramatic pictures showed the ancient port city dwarfed by the a menacing cloud spewing out of the volcano, one of the most active in the world.

Vincenzo Bellini, Sicily’s second largest international airport, was temporarily closed at lunchtime on Monday due to the eruption, with inbound flights diverted to Palermo.

The ash cloud rose 6.2 miles into the air above a crator on the south-east of the volcano, the INGV National Institute for Geophysics and Vulcanology said on Twitter.

CATANIA, ITALY - FEBRUARY 21: Aerial view of the Etna volcano eruption seen from the city of Catania with a 10 km high ash cloud on February 21, 2022 in Catania, Italy. A new eruption of Etna with lava fountains over the top of the volcano reaching a height of 10 thousand metres. The winds disperse the pyroclastic material and black sand towards the south east. This is the second eruptive episode in 2022. (Photo by Fabrizio Villa/Getty Images)
The airport of Catania was temporarily closed (Picture: Getty Images Europe)
People look at volcanic ashes ascending from the south-east crater of the Mt. Etna volcano in Sicily, Italy, Monday, Feb. 21, 2022. The second-strongest paroxysm of 2022 produced volcanic smoke and ashes that rose for 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) forcing the temporary closure of the nearby Vincenzo Bellini international airport in Catania. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
The huge cloud could be seen for miles around (Picture: AP)
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A ‘lava fountain’ was seen spewing from the South-East crater (Picture: SplashNews)
Mount Etna, Europe's highest and most active volcano, erupts and shoots plumes of smoke, seen from Nicolosi, Italy, February 21, 2022. REUTERS/Antonio Parrinello
Mount Etna is Europe’s highest and most active volcano (Picture: Reuters)

Ash covered roads, balconies and roofs of towns nearby, Italy’s civil protection agency said.

INGV said it had recorded a gradual rise in volcanic-seismic tremor – induced by escaping gases – which could be a sign that Etna is heading towards another spectacular burst of fiery lava fountaining, known as paroxysmal activity.

At 3,324 metres (nearly 11,000 feet), Etna is the tallest active volcano in Europe and has erupted frequently in the past 500,000 years.

The latest eruption was so strong it could be seen from space with the dust cloud being picked up on satellite images from the International Space Station.

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