As he does most days, Umraiz Khan had just walked his son, Irfan, to the cable car he takes to school on the other side of a deep valley in their remote, mountainous region of Pakistan.
Italian police said Wednesday they had arrested three people as part of the investigation into a cable car crash in the mountains that left 14 people dead, including five Israelis. The trio, all involved in management of the cable car, are accused of deliberately deactivating the emergency brake that could have stopped it slamming into the side of the Mottarone mountain when the cable snapped on Sunday afternoon. "The public prosecutors office has ordered three arrests for removal or omission of precautions against accidents at work," a spokesman for the Carabinieri police told AFP. Of the 15 people travelling in the cable car at Mottarone, a scenic location overlooking Lake Maggiore in the northwest region of Piedmont, 14 were killed, while a five-year-old boy remains in hospital. Italian news agencies named the three suspects as Luigi Nerini, the head of Ferrovie del Mottarone, the firm which manages the cable car, and two other managers, Gabriele Tadini and Enrico Perocchi