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Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, northern Italy, May 23, 2022. (Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese via AP)
A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy’s most picturesque lakes plummeted to the ground Sunday and then tumbled down the slope, killing 14 people, including five Israelis.
Israel’s Foreign Ministry, citing Italian authorities, said the victims appeared to include an Israeli couple living in Italy and their son. Another elderly couple, likely visiting from Israel, was also killed, the ministry said, adding that the information was still being verified.
Thirteen people died and two children were seriously injured Sunday when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain in northern Italy, emergency services said.
Italian cable car accident: Death toll rises to 13
By AFP
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Rome - Thirteen people died and two children were seriously injured Sunday when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain in northern Italy, emergency services said.
The toll could rise further from the accident in Stresa, a resort town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in Italy s Piedmont region, the Alpine rescue service said on Twitter.
A spokesman said two children aged nine and five had been seriously injured and taken by helicopter to a paediatric hospital in Turin.
A statement by Prime Minister Mario Draghi expressed his profound grief and offered his condolences to the victim s families.
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