TOURISTS are being evacuated amid another eruption from a notorious volcano in Iceland.
Visitors were cleared from surrounding towns and a luxury hotel as lava began spewing from a new kilometre-long fissure in the Sundhnúkur volcano, near the popular town of Grindavik.
The eruption – the volcano’s ninth since December 2023 – happened in the early hours of this morning just after the mass evacuation.
Footage of the scene shows a boiling orange rip in the earth with a scorching sheet of magma flowing out.
Lava and thick white smoke can be seen spewing up into the air.
A campsite and the Blue Lagoon Iceland – a five-star hotel resort – were evacuated, along with most of the town of GrindavÃk.
Police were reportedly swooping around the streets urging people to leave their homes ahead of the eruption.
However, the authorities do not believe this latest eruption poses major danger to people in the area.
Iceland’s Meteorological Office said that based on GPS measurements, this was likely a fairly small eruption.
And it does not think the lava flow will reach the town.
But it did warn that gas pollution in the area is likely.
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