Mount Etna erupts sending six mile ash cloud into the sky and closing airport
The Metro says 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.
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