Hundreds of tourists scrambled for safety on Monday after Europe's most active volcano, Mount Etna—located on the eastern coast of Sicily near Catania—erupted, unleashing dangerous pyroclastic flows.
Limited details have been released about the eruption, but footage posted on X shows the crazy situation that immediately unfolded:
❗️[ 🇮🇹 ITALIE ]
— (Little) Think Tank (@L_ThinkTank) June 2, 2025
🔸 Le volcan Etna, parmi les plus actifs au monde, est entré en éruption, poussant les touristes à fuir alors qu’une impressionnante colonne de fumée s’élève dans le ciel. pic.twitter.com/Uq3ElfHrJv
#ITALY: New video shows Mount #Etna erupting. pic.twitter.com/zqZHU4FR03
— GRX (@GlobalReportX) June 2, 2025
🚨 Baroque facades and a volcanic eruption — this is Sicily today
— Mambo Italiano (@mamboitaliano__) June 2, 2025
Mount Etna erupts!
Italy 🇮🇹pic.twitter.com/B0mywIJnWG
Italy's National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology stated around lunchtime local time:
"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. Over the past few hours, the falling of a little thin ash has been flagged in the Piano Vetore area."
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