Mount Etna in Italy has exploded, marking one of its largest eruptions since 2014, despite being one of the most active volcanoes in the world.
Located on the island of Sicily, the mountain is one of Europe’s largest volcanoes.
The eruption took place on Monday local time and sent ash plumes as far as five kilometres into the air.
CNN reports that there were as many as 40 people on the volcano at the time of the eruption, according to a tourism company guide.
No injuries have been reported.
Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology said there were “strombolian explosions of increasing intensity”, with Strombolian eruptions being considered milder for volcanoes.
It added that the "amplitude values of volcanic tremors are currently high" and were "showing a tendency to increase".
