14 people died in a cable car accident on Lake Maggiore in Italy.
Only a five-year-old boy survived the tragedy, seriously injured.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore in Italy: A gondola falls down on Monte Mottarone.
14 people were killed in the tragedy.
Only a five-year-old survived
(see update from May 24, 10:51 a.m.)
The investigations are in
full swing (see update from May 25, 11:31 a.m.)
This news ticker is updated regularly.
Update from May 25, 11:31 a.m.:
The investigations on Lake Maggiore are progressing. The public prosecutor's office saw the video of a surveillance camera on Tuesday, reports the
Corriere della Sera
, those responsible are investigating the suspicion of negligent homicide. The pictures show how the cable of the gondola breaks, the cabin falls and several of the 15 passengers are thrown out of the gondola. At this point in time, the lift was just before the mountain station on Monte Mottarone.
The maintenance company announced that the hydraulic brakes were last repaired on May 3, 2021.
The last rope test took place in November 2020.
There were no irregularities to be seen at the time.
Daily and weekly checks are the responsibility of the operator, explains the cable car company.
The tragic cable car accident occurred on the first weekend after extensive relaxation of the Corona rules in Italy.
However, due to hygiene measures still in place, the crashed gondola was not fully occupied.
14 people lost their lives in the accident.
The region is in shock.
Two children were brought to the clinic in Turin by rescue helicopter.
Only one of the two little boys survived.
He lost his parents in the accident.
“This weekend should be the day of new beginnings and smiles,” said Regional President Alberto Ciro, now also dismayed at the scene of the accident, “instead I saw destroyed lives and destroyed hopes.”
Italy: Government announces investigation into cable car accident - civil protection authority on Lake Maggiore
Update from May 24th, 2:11 p.m.:
One day after the fatal cable car accident on Lake Maggiore, the Italian government announced that it would clarify the circumstances behind the crash of the gondola. The cause of the accident has not yet been clarified. Italy's infrastructure minister and the head of the civil protection authority met on Monday at the Stresa disaster. The government wants to understand the causes and what happened, said Minister Enrico Giovannini in front of the media in the town in northern Italian Piedmont. A commission supported the investigation of the responsible public prosecutor in Verbania. According to media reports, this investigated because of negligent homicide.
The South Tyrolean company Leitner, which is responsible for the maintenance of the cable car, stated that “no irregularities” were found during the last magnetic-inductive rope test in November 2020.
The examination takes place annually.
Even after the general overhaul of the railway in 2016, the system was carefully checked.
Cable car accident in Italy: five-year-old as the only survivor - aunt with orphan
The only survivor of the accident is a five-year-old boy who lost his parents, brother and great-grandparents in the crash.
Meanwhile, according to Italian media, an aunt is said to be with him.
Cable car accident on Lake Maggiore: tragic details - child loses entire family
Update from May 24, 10:51 a.m.:
The Israeli Foreign Ministry has now confirmed the deaths of five citizens.
The authorities in Jerusalem announced on Monday that they were members of a family.
A couple and their two-year-old son who lived and worked in Italy were killed in the accident.
The woman's grandparents who were visiting Italy also died.
Particularly tragic: Another son of the couple, who survived the accident seriously injured, has now lost his entire family.
The five-year-old is currently being treated in a hospital.
He suffered severe fractures in his legs and was operated on and stabilized on Sunday evening, the Adnkronos agency reported.
Update from May 24, 7:33 a.m.:
After the fatal crash of a cable car in northern Italy, the search for the
cause of
the accident continues.
The public prosecutor of the Verbania municipality in the Piedmont region took over the investigation.
After the accident, two seriously injured children were flown by helicopter to a clinic in Turin, where one of them died that evening, increasing the number of deaths to 14.
According to the Federal Foreign Office, there was no evidence of German victims.
Meanwhile, the Israeli media reported, citing the Foreign Ministry, that five Israelis were among the dead.
The seriously injured boy is also from Israel.
Cable car accident in Italy: details of the origin of 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.
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Tragic accident on Lake Maggiore: The gondola of a cable car crashed on Monte Mottarone.
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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 cut 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 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 is being ventilated with intubation, 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.
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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.
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