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Etna erupts again, Catania airport flights suspended

The company that runs Catania airport on Tuesday suspended flights to and from it after Mount Etna erupted again, spewing a huge cloud of volcanic ash into the atmosphere.

Passengers have been asked to contact their airline before going to the airport, with some flights cancelled and others diverted to different airports.

It is the latest in a series of recent eruptions at Europe’s tallest active volcano.

The National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said this bout of activity was intense and estimated that the cloud of ash went up eight kilometers.