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Farmers clean off volcanic ash

2010-04-19 13:59:23 GMT2010-04-19 21:59:23 (Beijing Time)  Xinhua English

Farmer Bjarni Thorvaldsson works to clean off volcanic ash that accumulated on a barn roof from an erupting volcano near Eyjafjallajokull April 18, 2010. (Reuters Photo)

A view of the muddy conditions on the farm of Hrutafell, after rainfall turned the ash to mud, in Eyjafjoll April 18, 2010. Powerful tremors from an Icelandic volcano that has been a menace for travellers across Europe shook the countryside on Sunday as eruptions hurled a steady stream of ash into the sky. (Reuters Photo)

Ash covers bales of hay on a farm in Hrutafell in Eyjafjoll April 18, 2010. Powerful tremors from an Icelandic volcano that has been a menace for travellers across Europe shook the countryside on Sunday as eruptions hurled a steady stream of ash into the sky. (Reuters Photo)

Farmers Benedikt Eythorsson (L) and Thorgrimur Bjarnason work to clean off volcanic ash that accumulated on their barn roof from an erupting volcano near Eyjafjallajokull April 18, 2010. (Reuters Photo)

Farmer Benedikt Eythorsson cleans off volcanic ash that accumulated on a barn roof from an erupting volcano near Eyjafjallajokull, Iceland April 18, 2010. (Reuters Photo)

Powerful tremors from an Icelandic volcano that has been a menace for travellers across Europe shook the countryside on Sunday as eruptions hurled a steady stream of ash into the sky.

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