At least 14 people are said to have died in a cable car accident on Lake Maggiore in Italy.
According to a report, a child is seriously injured in an intensive care unit.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore in Italy: A gondola falls down on Monte Mottarone.
14 of at least 15 inmates die in the tragedy.
According to the Foreign Office, there are no German tourists among the fatalities.
Update from May 23, 9:30 p.m
.: Little
by little
, more details about the fatalities on Mount Mottarone will be known.
As reported by the Italian daily
La Repubblica
, two families of friends from Varese (Lombardy) and a family from Pavia (Lombardy) of Israeli origin are among the fatalities.
Two other victims are from Cosentino, two of the dead came from Castel San Giovanni (Emilia-Romagna) and one from Vedano Olona (Lombardy).
In the tragic accident in the vacation area, 14 out of 15 people from the gondola, which is said to have fallen 20 meters into the depth, died.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: 14 fatalities on Mount Mottarone
Update from May 23, 8:10 p.m
.: According to consistent media reports, a child died of his serious injuries after the cable car accident near Lake Maggiore.
This brings the death toll to 14.
As reported by the
ARD Tagesschau
, the cable car from the 1970s was serviced by a South Tyrolean company between 2014 and 2016 for several million euros.
It had only been back in operation since Saturday after the corona easing.
The cable car connects the holiday resort of Stresa and the almost 1,500 meter high Mottarone mountain.
The Ministry of Infrastructure suspects the cause of the accident to be a cable tear in the uppermost area of the route.
According to the Foreign Office, no German tourists should be among the victims.
Italian media had reported about it.
+
Tragic accident on Lake Maggiore: The gondola of a cable car crashed on Monte Mottarone.
© dpa-Bildfunk
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: "There is a severed cable, the others are intact"
Update from May 23, 6.45 p.m
.: The cause of the cable car accident on Lake Maggiore, in which at least 13 people were killed, is still unclear.
"There is a severed cable, the others are intact," La Repubblica quotes Lieutenant Colonel Giorgio Santacroce of the Carabinieri: "We will carry out all possible investigations."
Update from May 23, 6.15 p.m
.: Are Germans among the fatalities in the tragic crash of a cable car gondola on Lake Maggiore?
According to
t-online.de
,
Italian media report
that German tourists are said to have been on board.
The Federal Foreign Office is investigating this, but initially did not want to comment on request.
According to initial findings, 13 people died in the cable car accident in Piedmont, Italy.
According to the daily
La Repubblica,
two children aged five and nine are
seriously injured in an accident clinic in Turin.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: at least 15 people are said to have been on board
Update from May 23, 4:50 p.m
.: How many people were in the crashed gondola on Lake Maggiore?
The Italian daily
La Repubblica
reports that there are at least 15 people on board.
According to the report, there is now a 13th fatality.
Two children aged five and nine are said to be in intensive care in an accident clinic in Turin.
The five-year-old child is said to have, among other things, a head trauma and several fractures of the lower limbs, i.e. legs.
One of the children will be ventilated intubated, it said.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: According to the rescue service, at least twelve dead
Update from May 23, 4.30 p.m.:
The death toll from the cable car accident on Lake Maggiore has continued to rise.
According to the latest information from the rescue service, at least twelve people have died.
The number of victims could "unfortunately" increase even further, said the rescue service on Sunday afternoon in the online service Twitter.
Update from May 23, 3:52 p.m.:
Italian politicians have
commented
on the cable car accident on Lake Maggiore.
Liguria's regional president Giovanni Toti expressed his condolences to the people of Piedmont.
The tragedy puts you in mourning - on a Sunday that should actually stand for hope, wrote EU Economic Commissioner Paolo Gentiloni on Twitter.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: a cabin has apparently crashed
First report from May 23, 2:12 p.m.
Stresa - In Italy * there was a bad accident on Lake Maggiore.
Various Italian media reports that a cable car cabin has crashed.
How many victims died has not yet been conclusively confirmed.
The newspaper
La Repubblica
writes that, according to the rescue workers, nine people have died.
Accident on Lake Maggiore: cable car cabin on Mottarone crashes - several dead
The newspaper also reports that a cabin with at least eleven people on board fell into the depths.
Nine people died.
Two children were taken to a hospital in Turin.
Your condition is critical.
Why the cabin crashed around 1 p.m. is still unclear.
According to mountain rescue, two helicopters were in use.
+
A photo taken by rescue workers shows the wreckage of the crashed cable car cabin on Lake Maggiore.
© Corpo Nazionale Soccorso Alpino E Speleologico / AFP Photo
The Italian portal
Corriere also
reports on eleven people on board the gondola.
The cabin crashed at one of the highest points in the system.
Both
La Repubblica
and
Corriere
report that a rope failure could have led to the disaster.
It is a cable car that connects the seaside town of Stresa with Mount Mottarone in a twenty-minute ride.
In 2016, the cable car was thoroughly serviced and renovated for 4.4 million euros, as
Corriere
reports.
(lb) * Merkur.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA
List of rubric lists: © dpa-Bildfunk
/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/prisa/KMEYMJKESBAZBE4MRBAM4TGHIQ.jpg)
