Italian cable car accident kills 14 ‘ENORMOUS TRAGEDY’: The 20-minute cable car ride, popular with tourists, links Stresa with the summit of the Mottarone and offers spectacular views of the Alps AFP, ROME Fourteen people died on Sunday when a cable car slammed into the side of a mountain in northern Italy, emergency services said. An Israeli couple living in Italy died along with one child, while their five-year-old was fighting for his life with brain trauma and broken legs, the Italian Alpine Rescue Service said. A nine-year-old Italian child was also among the dead, it said, adding that the toll could rise further from the accident in Stresa, a resort town on the shores of Lake Maggiore in the Piedmont region.