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Terrifying moment huge gas cloud from Stromboli volcano eruption closes in on fleeing sailboat crew!

THE moment a small sailboat crew flees from being engulfed by an enormous gas cloud erupting from a volcano in Italy has been captured on film.

Dramatic footage shows a large cloud filling the sky on the island of Stromboli as a panicked sailing crew shout to each other to leave the area...

A trail of billowing smoke is then seen encroaching, terrifying close to the escaping boat...

One man on board looks up to see the thick plumes fill the sky above the tiny Mediterranean island..

The volcano began to erupt back in July - spewing lava “from all active mouths of the crater” and a thick ash plume 6,000ft high, said Italy’s National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology...

Then two powerful blasts rocked the island and sent burning embers raining down on the holiday hot spot...

The eruption, which sent molten rock spilling from the mountain, was likened to a "nuke explosion"...

Emergency services rushed to the scene as the explosion started fires on the western side of Stromboli...

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More in the article linked including amazing pics of the Stromboli eruption and a video...

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