At least eight dead in Italian cable car accident
Eight people died and another two were seriously injured Sunday after a cable car crashed to the ground in northern Italy, emergency services said. The accident occurred in the resort town of Stresa on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the Piedmont region, a spokesman told reporters.
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- Published Date: 03:12 | 23 May 2021
- Modified Date: 03:37 | 23 May 2021
At least eight people have died after a cable car connecting Italy's Maggiore lake with a mountain close by plunged on Sunday, Italian news agency ANSA reported.
The Stresa Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the famous town of Stresa, on lake Maggiore, up almost 1400 metres above sea level to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes.
"Serious accident on the Stresa- Mottarone cable car. Alpine rescue, and other rescue teams on site. Two helicopter ambulances intervened," the national alpine rescue service said on Twitter.
ANSA said the cable car carried 11 people and that two children had been brought by helicopter to a hospital in the northern city of Turin.
No-one at the Alpine rescue service was immediately available to give further details.
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