Volcano effect: Hundreds of passengers stranded in Mumbai Airport

Mumbai: Hundreds of air passengers are facing huge delays on Chhatrapati Shivaji Intarnational Airport at Mumbai as international air service disruptions intensified after a cloud of ash from a volcano in Iceland spread across Europe.
All the Air India flights from Mumbai to the United States of America, Canada, and London have been called off.
The flights flying towards India are also delayed indefinitely, thus, causing inconvenience to the passengers moving to and fro.
Iceland's second volcano eruption in less than a month began under the Eyjafjallajokull glacier in the south of the country on Wednesday.
Between 700 and 800 people were evacuated from their homes in the remote, lightly populated area 125 kilometres east of Reykjavik, as melted glacier water caused massive flooding.
Last month, the first volcano eruption at the Eyjafjallajokull glacier since 1823 -- and Iceland's first since 2004 -- briefly forced 600 people from their homes in the same area.
Iceland lies on the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, the highly volatile boundary between the Eurasian and North American continental plates.
16/04/10 ANI/Daily India.com

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