Mount Etna ash suspends arrivals at Italy’s Catania airport
- Catania international airport services the eastern part of Sicily, one of Italy’s most popular tourist destinations.
- Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has belched smoke and ashes in a new eruption, forcing the suspension of arrivals at a nearby airport in Sicily.
- “Due to Etna’s eruptive activity and the associated release of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, the airspace corresponding to the cloud … has been closed,” Catania airport said in a statement on Saturday.
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- Catania international airport services the eastern part of Sicily, one of Italy’s most popular tourist destinations.
- Mount Etna, one of the world’s most active volcanoes, has belched smoke and ashes in a new eruption, forcing the suspension of arrivals at a nearby airport in Sicily.
- “Due to Etna’s eruptive activity and the associated release of volcanic ash into the atmosphere, the airspace corresponding to the cloud … has been closed,” Catania airport said in a statement on Saturday.
Sources: Al Jazeera