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4/19/10

Iceland eruption tapering off, spewing lava and less ash

Iceland's erupting volcano began Monday to shoot molten lava and significantly less ash, stoking hopes that the volcanic cloud paralysing air travel across Europe will disperse.

A commercial helicopter pilot who flew over Eyjafjoell volcano in southern Iceland on Monday told AFP he saw fiery lava in the crater.

"We saw the eruption changing from being explosions of ash," Reynir Petursson said, resting by his helicopter in the village of Hofelstroem.

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