At least 14 people have been killed and a child is being treated in hospital after a cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of lakes in northern Italy plunged to the ground.
Stresa mayor Marcella Severino said it appeared that a cable broke, sending the car spinning until it hit a pylon and fell to the ground.
At that point, the car overturned “two or three times before hitting some trees”, she said. Some of those who died were thrown from the cabin.
Images from the site showed the crumpled car in a clearing of a thick patch of pine trees near the summit of the Mottarone peak overlooking Lake Maggiore.
14 dead and child in hospital after cable car plunges in Italy
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