A disaster, a cable broke. Two children taken to hospital with serious injuries.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/23/at-least-eight-dead-in-italian-cable-car-accidentAt least 12 people are reported to have been killed after a cable car collapsed near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy.
The cable car, which connects the resort town of Stresa and the Mottarone mountain in the Piedmont region, had 15 people onboard, according to Walter Milan, a spokesperson for the Alpine rescue service.
He said two people were seriously injured and described the red and white cabin as “almost completely crumpled”.
The incident was reported to have been caused after a tow rope broke.
Corriere della Sera said two children had been taken to a hospital in Turin by air ambulance. The children in hospital were aged nine and 5, according to the Ansa news agency.
“Rescue operations are continuing. Unfortunately, there are several victims and [some with] serious injuries,” the service said in its most recent update on Twitter.