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Agence France-Presse

A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted dramatically on Wednesday, killing a hiker and sending tourists fleeing into the sea.
The volcano is known to be active but on Wednesday there were two particularly powerful explosions.
“Unfortunately one man is dead, there are a few injured, but none seriously,” emergency worker Calogero Foti told RAI television.
The dead man was a 35-year-old from Messina in Sicily who was walking with a Brazilian companion who was found dehydrated and in a state of shock, the AGI news agency reported.

They were walking below the 400-metre altitude limit above which a guide is required.
A navy boat has been sent to the 12 sq km (five-square-mile) island for a possible mass evacuation, with 70 inhabitants and tourists already evacuated.
“It was like being in hell because of the rain of fire coming from the sky,” Italian news agencies quoted local priest Giovanni Longo as saying.
He said it was not known if there were any hikers on the volcano at the time of the eruption, which caused fires around the village of Ginostra.
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Stromboli is topped by an active volcano which is a magnet for tourists from early spring each year.
Italian media reported that some tourists had fled into the sea after the eruption, while others had barricaded themselves into homes.
Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) said there were two huge explosions on the central-southern side of the volcano’s crater at around 2.46pm on Wednesday, among the biggest explosions ever recorded on the island.
The explosions were preceded by lava spills “from all the active mouths of the crater terrace”, INGV said, prompting a 2km-high plume of smoke.

“It’s been a long time since we had an eruption of this magnitude,” former local councillor Gianluca Giuffre told RAI news.
“My experience and of those who have been living here for generations leads us to believe that the situation will calm down again but we must be cautious,” he said.
A firefighting plane could not put out fires in the area because of the amount of smoke, Italian media reported. INGV said it was monitoring the situation.
A previous massive eruption in December 2002 prompted a tidal wave after magma from a particularly violent eruption cascaded into the sea. Six people were injured. Piers, boats and some buildings were swept away.
‘Child of Krakatoa’, the volcano that triggered deadly tsunami
Access to the island was forbidden to outsiders for more than a month amid the risk of further landslides, and scientists set up electronic observation stations to monitor volcanic activity.
Four-fifths of the island’s population of around 500 decided to leave for the Aeolian island administrative centre of Lipari, whose schools have taken on Stromboli’s children since the disaster.
Stromboli was made famous in the 1950 film of the same name by Roberto Rossellini, starring Ingrid Bergman and is a major tourist attraction with thousands of people visiting its lava-spitting crater each year.
Stromboli is part of the seven-island Eolian Archipelago just off Sicily in southern Italy.


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Volcano erupts on Italian island of Stromboli, killing hiker and sending tourists jumping into sea

Smoke billows from the volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli on Wednesday. Photo: ANSA via AP

This video grab handout by the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian National Corps of Firefighters, shows the Stromboli volcano in eruption from a Dragon 59 rescue helicopter on July 3, 2019 above the Stromboli island, north of Sicily. - A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted dramatically on July 3, reportedly killing a hiker and sending tourists fleeing, but firefighters could not immediately confirm any casualties. (Photo by Handout / Vigili del Fuoco / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / VIGILI DEL FUOCO" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

This video grab handout by the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian National Corps of Firefighters, shows the Stromboli volcano in eruption on July 3, 2019 on the Stromboli island, north of Sicily. - A volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted dramatically on July 3, reportedly killing a hiker and sending tourists fleeing, but firefighters could not immediately confirm any casualties. (Photo by Handout / Vigili del Fuoco / AFP) / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / VIGILI DEL FUOCO" - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Dark tourism: volcano villages in Indonesia destroyed by eruption offer grim testament to its power

Visitors enjoy a lava tour on Mount Merapi, Indonesia. Nine years after an eruption killed more than 350 people and destroyed three villages, disaster tourism is thriving on its slopes. Photo: James Wendlinger

Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Sign in memory of the 2 persons who died in Kaliadem bunker during the eruption in 2010, Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Angus Riyanto one of the driver of Lava tour in Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Mini Museum near Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Clock showing the exact time of the eruption of Mount Merapi in 2010, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Tourist pose in front of Kaliadem bunker Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Tourist poses in front of Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Umbulharjo Sumyati, village head and owner of the Mini Museum, Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Signal showing the limit not to cross to Mount Merapi, Indonesia. SCMP/James Wendlinger [FEATURES 2019]

Indonesian volcano Mount Sinabung erupts again, spewing massive column of smoke and ash skywards

Mount Sinabung spews thick volcanic ash on May 7. Photo: Handout

This handout picture taken and released by Indonesia's Badan Nasional Penanggulangan Bencana (BNPB), the accident mitigation agency, on May 7, 2019 shows Mount Sinabung volcano spewing thick volcanic ash, as seen from Karo. - Sinabung roared back to life in 2010 for the first time in 400 years, after another period of inactivity it erupted once more in 2013, and has remained highly active since. (Photo by Handout / BADAN NASIONAL PENANGGULANGAN BENCANA (BNBP) / AFP)

Indonesia’s volcano tsunami beat technology to detect it

Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, a spokesman of Indonesia's Mitigation and Disaster Agency (BNPB), spots on a map of area affected by a tsunami hit Sunda straitduring during a conference at the BNPB headquarters in Jakarta, Indonesia, December 25, 2018. REUTERS/Willy Kurniawan

Workers unload a Tsunami Buoy, a device to detect early tsunami warnings, donated by the US National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Jakarta on June 10, 2008. NOAA and the Indonesian Agency for Assessment and Application Technology (BPPT) will independently launch two deep-sea tsunami early-warning buoys some 300 kilometer southern of Bali island. The buoys will help to mitigate exposure to natural disasters in Indonesia by detecting potential tsunami from undersea earthquakes. AFP PHOTO/Bay ISMOYO (Photo by BAY ISMOYO / AFP)

epa07246206 (FILE) - A handout file photo made available by NASA on 23 December 2018 shows an image, acquired by the MultiSpectral Instrument (MSI) on the European Space Agency (ESA)'s Sentinel-2, of the Krakatau Islands as volcano Anak Krakatau (C, top) erupts volcanic ash and steam over the waters of the Sunda Strait, Indonesia, 22 September 2018. A tsunami that hit coastal areas on Indonesia's Sunda Straight on 22 December 2018, has killed at least 62 people and injured over 580 others. The Indonesian disaster management agency warned that the death toll is likely to rise. A possible cause of the seismic sea wave was believed to be undersea landslides related to Anak Krakatau's volcanic activity. The tsunami struck at around 21:30 local time (14:30GMT) on 22 December 2018. EPA-EFE/ESA/NASA HANDOUT HANDOUT EDITORIAL USE ONLY/NO SALES

The aftermath of last week’s tsunami on Way Muli village in Rajabasa, South Lampung, Indonesia. Photo: Reuters

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Deceased was Italian man from Sicily, whose Brazilian companion was found dehydrated and in state of shock
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Volcano erupts on Italian island of Stromboli, killing hiker and sending tourists jumping into sea

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Deceased was Italian man from Sicily, whose Brazilian companion was found dehydrated and in state of shock

Navy vessel sent to island for possible mass evacuation after two powerful blasts