The mayor of the neighboring town of Stresa, Marcella Severino, said she gave the impression that the cable had broken, sending the car to burn until it crashed into a pylon and then collapsed to the ground, flipping “two or three times before crashing. “trees. “
The capsule is thought to have dropped about 50 feet (15 m). Some of those who died were thrown out of the cabin, the mayor said.
“It’s a dreadful and dreadful scene,” Severino told SkyTG24.
The death toll increased when doctors were unable to restart the center of one of two young men who had been transferred to the hospital by air ambulance.
“There’s nothing else we can do,” said Pier Paolo Berra, spokesman for Regina Margherita Hospital in Turin.
One of the children, who was seriously injured in the incident, is believed to have been a five-year-old boy who suffered trauma to the head, chest and lower limbs, but still conscious.
Simone Bobbio, spokesman for the Alpine Rescue Service in the Piedmont region, said the main points about the nationality or age of the victims had not yet been made public.
In the past it was reported that 11 other people were aboard the cockpit.
Corriere della Sera said rescue efforts were further complicated by the fact that the cabin, with capacity for 40 people, fell into a wood in an inaccessible area.
A photo of the remains taken through Italian firefighters showed the crushed remains of the red and white cable car in a clearing in a wooded domain near the most sensitive ski resort.
The Stresa-Mottarone elevator cables were above the floor at the time, said Walter Milan, spokesman for the Alpine Rescue Service.
He said the cable line was closed in 2014 for a renovation of 4. 4 million euros before reopening in 2016 and only reopened on April 24 after COVID locks forced the closure of lifts throughout Italy last year.
Fire, helicopter, police and mountain rescue teams are on site.
A truck with a chimney on its way to the dump, however, was not reported injured.
“A terrible tragedy, I have already spoken to the prefect and the director of Fireplace and Civil Protection. We are looking to perceive what happened, but this is a really terrible tragedy,” said Sustainable Infrastructure and Mobility Minister Enrico Giovannini. .
The cable car, which has two cars in the interchange directions, connects Stresa on the shores of Lake Maggiore with mottarone’s most sensitive, at an altitude of about 1491 meters, and takes about 20 minutes with a more sensitive in between.
There is a small amusement park at the top, Alpyland, which has a roller coaster for children with a 360-degree view of the picturesque lake and surrounding Alps in Italy’s Piedmont region.
The Italian government has ordered an investigation, which is likely to raise new questions about the security of the country’s transport infrastructure.
In 2018, the Morandi Highway Bridge in Genoa collapsed and killed people.
In 2009, a fuel loading exercise derailed and exploded near Lucca, killing 32 people.
In 2001, 40 tourists had to be rescued after a cable car crashed as they left Stresa Terminal, where the most recent incident occurred.
And in 1998, a low-altitude U. S. army jet cut the cable of a plane in the Dolomites, killing 20 people.