Fourteen killed in cable car crash in Italy
Three people have been arrested under suspicion of causing a cable car to crash in the northern Italian mountainside resort town of Stresa. The crash killed 14 people, including two children.
The cable car was about 300 metres from its peak when the structure’s load-bearing cable snapped at the last pillar before the dock, and the emergency brakes failed to deploy. The car that was headed in the opposite direction, down the mountain, does not appear to have had any mechanical issues; however, those passengers had to disembark using the car’s emergency stairs because the cable broke before the car was docked.