At least 8 killed in Italian cable car accident
AP
At least eight people have died and three others including two children, are injured, following a cable car accident in northern Italy Sunday, officials say.
A group was riding in a Stresa-Mottarone cable car — which connects the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore with the nearby Mottarone mountain — when it plunged into a wooded area Sunday morning, according to a spokesperson for the National Alpine Speleological Rescue Corps, which is leading the rescue operation.
Italy’s national fire brigade posted a photo of the crash site to their official Twitter account, which shows a mangled cable car near broken trees and the severed cable. A spokesperson for the fire brigade said the number of dead could rise.