Lava spews from Sicily's Mount Etna

[Pastor Dale Morgan]

*Perilous Times

Lava spews from Sicily's Mount Etna*

ROME, May 10 (AFP) May 10, 2008

Lava spewed Saturday from the southeastern crater of Mount Etna, the
highest active volcano in Europe, into an uninhabited area, the Palermo
Geophysics and Vulcanology Institute said.

The last eruption of Mount Etna, on the island of Sicily, was in
November last year, two months after another eruption forced a temporary
closure of nearby Catania airport due to flying lava and clouds of ash.

The last truly spectacular eruption was in the summer of 2001.