May. 26, 2021
Police in northern Italy have made three arrests in the cable car disaster that killed 14 people, including two children, after an investigation showed a clamp, intentionally placed on the brake as a patchwork repair effort, prevented the brake from engaging after the lead cable snapped.
The gondola on a cable way connecting the town of Stresa, on the shore of Lake Maggiore, to the nearby Mottarone Mountain, plunged to the ground on Sunday, killing Amit Biran and Tal Peleg-Biran, an Israeli couple studying and working in Italy, alongside their two-year-old son Tom. Tal s grandparents Barbara and Itzhak Cohen, who had come to visit, were killed as well.
Three arrested over Italian cable car disaster that killed 14, including five Israelis
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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, on May 23. (Italian Vigili del Fuoco Firefighters via AP)
ROME 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. The lone survivor, a young child, was hospitalized in serious condition with broken bones, authorities said.
Six of the dead were Israeli citizens, including a family of four who lived in Italy, the Israeli foreign ministry said. It wasn t clear if the other couple was related.
Italy cable car fall: Lone child survivor in family of five recovering in hospital as death toll reaches 14 Joanna Taylor © Provided by The Independent
Fourteen people have been confirmed dead after a cable car plunged to the ground on a mountainside in northern Italy on Sunday morning.
The Italian government has launched an investigation into the cause of the incident on the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region, while prosecutors seek to establish any criminal blame.
Just one of the fifteen passengers believed to have been inside the cable car at the time of the crash has survived.
A 5-year old Israeli boy, named by the Israeli foreign ministry as Eitan Biran, remains in hospital with several broken bones. Despite requiring emergency surgery at the Regina Margherita children’s hospital in Turin, he was conscious on arrival.