Photos: Spectacular eruptions from Italy's Mount Etna light up night sky

Streams of red hot lava flow as Mount Etna leaps into action

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Large streams of red hot lava shoot into the night sky as Mount Etna leaps into action, as seen from the village of Fornazzo, Italy, on February 23, 2021.
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Mount Etna, one of the world's most active volcanoes, belched smoke and ash in a new eruption on early morning on Tuesday.
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Located on the east coast of Sicily, Mount Etna is the highest and most active volcano in Europe.
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Lava flowing along the sides of the southern crater of the Etna volcano as a new eruptive episode of tall lava fountains, known as paroxysm, occurred.
AFP
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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.
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Large streams of red hot lava flow as Mount Etna leaps into action.
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Large streams of red hot lava shoot into the night sky as Mount Etna leaps into action.
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Large streams of red hot lava shoot into the night sky as Mount Etna leaps into action.
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Large streams of red hot lava flow as Mount Etna leaps into action.
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Large streams of red hot lava flow as Mount Etna leaps into action.
REUTERS
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Large streams of red hot lava shoot into the night sky as Mount Etna leaps into action.
REUTERS
12/12
Lava flowing along the sides of the southern crater of the Etna volcano as a new eruptive episode of tall lava fountains, known as paroxysm, occurred.
AFP

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