Airlines have been put on alert after a massive volcanic eruption on Russia’s remote Kamchatka Peninsula.
Shiveluch – one of the country’s most active volcanoes – started erupting at around midnight on Tuesday.
Within six hours, it had sent a 10km high ash plume into the sky and developed a 108,000 square km ash cloud.
The violent eruption carpeted nearby villages with 10 centimetres of ash.
If you’re catching a flight in the coming days, here’s everything you need to know
What is the Russia’s Shiveluch volcano?
Shiveluch has erupted around 60 times in the past 10,000 years, with the last major eruption in 2007.
The ash cloud has closed schools across the Kamakatcha Peninsula, around
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