The eruption of a long dormant volcano has been described as 'feeling like a bomb' by locals as a local community reports the volcano's eruption has blanketed their village in ash and soot

A long-dormant volcano has erupted for the first time in around 12,000 years, blanketing a village in ash and soot as residents have described the sound of the eruption to a bomb.

The eruption from the volcano – which is its first in modern history – spewed massive plumes of ash into the sky and coated the neighbouring village of Afdera in dust.

The Hayli Gubbi volcano, located in Ethiopia in the Afar region near the Eritrean border erupted for several hours on Sunday morning. Ash clouds released from the volcano’s eruption drifted out of the country reaching as far as the Red Sea, Yemen, Oman a

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