Only little Eitan (5) survived the tragic cable car accident in Italy.
His mother, who died in the process, protected him, as a first aider now reported.
Update from May 26th:
As announced on Wednesday morning, there were three arrests as a result of the cable car accident on Lake Maggiore.
It is said to be three employees of the operating company who are suspected of having manipulated the emergency brake of the gondola.
Lake Maggiore: 14 dead after the cable car crash at the weekend
Original message from May 25th:
Munich - For reasons that have not yet been clarified, a gondola fell on Monte Mottarone on Pentecost Sunday.
15 people were on board the cable car.
In the crash, some occupants were thrown out of the cabin.
13 people died at the scene of the accident.
Two children were flown by rescue helicopter to a clinic in Turin, where one of the boys died.
Lake Maggiore: Gondola crashes on Monte Mottarone - little boy (5) is the only survivor
Five-year-old Eitan is the only survivor of the accident on Lake Maggiore.
He lost both of his parents, his two-year-old brother and his paternal grandparents.
The doctors are now confident that little Eitan survived the accident without permanent damage.
Giovanni La Valle, director of the Regina Margherita hospital, told Italian media that he was not yet out of danger, but the examinations show that he had no brain damage.
On Wednesday, the medics want to try carefully to wake the child.
Cable car crash in Italy: first aider describes dramatic scenes - the rescue team bursts into tears
One of the first responders
now describes dramatic scenes for
the Italian portal
newsby.it
.
The rescue team burst into tears at the sight.
He has never experienced such a tragedy: “The cable car was completely destroyed.
And then I saw the many lifeless bodies in it.
It was just terrible. ”The gondola was only five meters away from the mountain station when the rope broke.
Eitan (5) survived the gondola accident on Lake Maggiore: "Saved by his mother's embrace"
“Little Eitan was saved by his mother's embrace,” says the fireman.
The parents of the two- and five-year-old had thrown protectively around their children when the gondola crashed.
They died at the scene of the accident.
Only Eitan survived.
In Italy * the compassion is now overwhelming.
“It's not about the image of our region,” says Piedmont Governor Alberto Cirio, “it's a hard blow, but it is always and wherever it happens.
Now we have to stay close to this child ”.
He is now traveling to Turin to visit the only child who survived the tragedy on the Stressa-Mottarone railway.
The investigation into the cause of the accident is in full swing.
The suspicion of negligent homicide is in the room.
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