The Catania Today website reported that at least three volcanologists were on the volcano when the explosion occurred just before noon, and that some were injured. BBC's global science correspondent, Rebecca Morelle, who was part of the team on the volcano at the time of the eruption, tweeted that getting pelted with stones from an erupting volcano was an experience that she would not like to have again. The BBC team reports that it felt like we were being hit by “burning stones and steam.”

Morelle explained that the injured people had “burns, cuts, and bruises,” remarking that the volcanologist stated that this explosion “has been the most dangerous incident in his 30-year career.” The BBC team is well aware, but the experience has been “extremely chilling.”

The reporter has highlighted the rapid intervention of the rescue team. While Morelle said the blast caused head injuries, burns, cuts and bruises, another volcanologist told her it was the most dangerous incident he had experienced in his 30-year career. Etna, which is 3,322 meters high and is the most active in Europe, is located in the eastern part of the island of Sicily, between the provinces of Messina and Catania, and its last eruption was recorded on 28 February.
An eruption at Mount Etna on the Italian island of Sicily injures at least ten people, including several in a BBC News crew.