(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 27 - Prosecutors have said the three people suspected of being responsible for Sunday's cable-car disaster in Piedmont face charges of "extraordinary gravity".
The owner of the company that runs the cable car, the company's director and the service's operational chief have been arrested over the disaster, which killed 14 people, including two children, and left a five-year-old boy fighting for his life.
Prosecutors in the city of Verbania said the cable car's emergency braking system, which should have prevented the disaster after one of the cables snapped, was deactivated deliberately "for economic reasons in total disregard for the