**Fresh flooding has hit areas around an erupting volcano in Iceland, prompting the second evacuation of local people in 48 hours.**About 700 people were evacuated to the small town of Hvolsvollur from isolated rural homes near the volcano, which is under the Eyjafjallajoekull glacier.
Flooding has cut the coast road from the area to the capital Reykjavik, to the north-west.
A plume of ash has spread across northern Europe from the volcano.
Icelandic media report that the eruption is continuing, but there have been no earth tremors since Thursday evening.
The level of the glacial Markarfljot river - swollen with ice and mud - has risen, threatening a bridge.
State television told people in the area to leave their homes urgently when it was clear that more of the glacier was breaking up.
Volcanic ash has fallen in parts of eastern Iceland and there are fears that ash could spread to Reykjavik if the wind direction changes.
Local people have been told to wear masks if the ash falls, Hannah Andrews, a dairy farmer near the volcano, told the BBC’s Europe Today programme. She said she had moved her cows indoors.
Gunnar Gestur Geirmundsson, a lorry driver at the capital’s Keflavik airport, said US-bound jets were still leaving Iceland, but flights to the UK had been cancelled. “We are working at a reduced capacity,” he told the BBC.
Air traffic has been severely disrupted across northern Europe by the volcanic ash.
Airspace has been closed or flights cancelled in countries including the UK, the Republic of Ireland, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland and France.
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