Three Etna injured are British tourists

(ANSA) - Catania, March 16 - Foreign tourists including three Britons are among the 10 people hurt by a "phreatic" explosion caused when lava from Mt Etna hit snow on Thursday. The three have been taken to Acireale hospital with scrapes caused by the flying fragments of suddenly cooled rock. Another foreign tourist is in the ER at Catania's Vittorio Emanuele Hospital, also with flesh wounds.