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Mount Etna, Europe's largest volcano, began erupting once again on June 2

Tourists were seen fleeing down the slopes of the volcano, while others photographed the eruption just a few hundred yards away

Mount Etna reportedly last erupted in May 2023

Tourists were seen fleeing Mount Etna in Italy after the volcano’s latest eruption during a national holiday.

Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology announced in a statement that the eruption began in Sicily on Monday, June 2, around 11 a.m. local time.

Images from the volcano at the time of the eruption, shared by The Times and The Telegraph , showed tourists racing down Mount Etna’s slopes as plumes of smoke and ash burst into the air.

Additional footage shared by the National Institute of Geoph

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