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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Travel
Stuti Mishra

Flights grounded as Mount Etna coats Catania in thick layer of ash

EPA

Flights were suspended at Sicily’s Catania airport on Sunday after Mount Etna, Europe’s most active volcano, showered the city with a thick coating of ash.

Ash fell across the runway and over the city of Catania, as well as on at least one town on Mount Etna’s slopes, according to Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV).

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