'Rain' of ash and lapilli on the Etna villages, but also on a section of the Catania-Messina motorway and on Taormina and its tourist district.
It is the effect of the last paroxysm of the highest active volcano in Europe which once again affected the South-East crater with a lava fountain, violent roars and the emission of a high and intense eruptive cloud .
Pyroclastic material, including small 'lava stones', precipitated copiously especially in the north-east of the Etna slope.
In Taormina, the phenomenon intrigued tourists who shot videos and took photos and selfies.
