Mar 16, 2017

BREAKING | Daily Mail |By Sarah Dean | 16 March 2017 | Several tourists injured and BBC film crew forced to flee as Mount Etna erupts sending lava 650ft into the air |

Mount Etna is pictured erupting in the early hours of Thursday. 'Many injured - some head injuries, burns, cuts and bruises. Volcanologist said most dangerous incident experience in his 30 year career,' a BBC journalist at the scene said 

  • At least three volcanologists were on the volcano when the explosion occurred just before noon, reports say

  • BBC's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, escaped the eruption

  • 'Pelted by rocks, dodging burning boulders and boiling steam,' she tweeted

Several tourists have reportedly been injured as Mount Etna erupted for the third time in just under three weeks, spitting molten lava nearly 650 feet into the sky above Sicily.

A BBC journalist and camera crew were caught in the huge explosion on Thursday. 
'Lava flow mixed with steam - caused huge explosion - group pelted with boiling rocks and steam,' the BBC's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, tweeted.

She reported an estimated eight people suffered head injuries, burns, cuts and bruises.....