Italy: Ash blankets neighbouring villages after Mount Etna eruption

Subscribe to our channel! Mount Etna's black ash affected some villages on the volcano's east side following an eruption, as seen on Sunday. Streets, squares, and roofs in Giarre, Milo, and Riposto in Catania region of Sicily have become carpets of lapilli and volcanic ash. Etna's ash even covered roofs of cars and boats. “We have been on our boat flipping, and suddenly, the Etna eruption started again, and now we have two centimetres of Etna's dust on the boat. Everything is black, and it's terrible,“ said a resident from Riposto. This ashfall is the eleventh paroxysmal phenomenon of the volcano, which has been incredibly active in recent weeks. The Catania-Messina motorway in the Giarre-Fiumefreddo section was closed due to the fallout of ash on the road. The Sicilian regional government declared a state of emergency for the dozens of municipalities reached by the ashes. However, Catania's Font