This is our 9/11 : Italian mayor describes how cable car tragedy has devastated the town as message from the Pope is read to packed church commemorating the victims and praying for survivor Eitan This is September 11 for Stresa, Mayor Marcella Severino said last night as a message from the Pope was relayed by the local priest during a service for the victims and the sole survivor, five-year-old Eitan Biran The Holy Father thinks with emotion of so many lives tragically broken . and sends his prayers to the victims and for little Eitan, Father Gianluca Villa told the congregation which included firefighters, nurses and police
May 27, 2021
Eitan Biran woke up in an Italian hospital three days after the cable car crash that killed the other members of his family.
By Yakir Benzion, United With Israel
One Wednesday, five-year-old Eitan Biran opened his eyes in the intensive care unit of an Italian hospital for the first time since he was critically injured in a cable car disaster in Italy.
Eitan was the sole survivor.
Fourteen people, including Eitan’s father Amit Biran, his mother Tal, his two-year-old brother Tom and his grandparents Barbara and Yitzhak Cohen, perished on Sunday when the cable car fell off its track and rolled down the mountainside, scattering bodies before crashing into trees that stopped its forward momentum.