ROME—A cable-car disaster in the Italian Alps killed 14 people, shocking a country where tourism and other pleasures of everyday life were just reopening after lengthy pandemic restrictions.
The cable car fell around 60 feet and crashed into a hillside above Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, before rolling downhill into trees, Italian rescue services said. Thirteen people died on the spot. Two children, aged nine and five, were found with severe injuries and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Turin. The older child died, and the younger child was being treated for multiple injuries late Sunday.
ROME—A cable-car disaster in the Italian Alps killed 14 people, shocking a country where tourism and other pleasures of everyday life were just reopening after lengthy pandemic restrictions.
The cable car fell around 60 feet and crashed into a hillside above Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, before rolling downhill into trees, Italian rescue services said. Thirteen people died on the spot. Two children, aged nine and five, were found with severe injuries and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Turin. The older child died, and the younger child was being treated for multiple injuries late Sunday.
ROME—A cable-car disaster in the Italian Alps killed 14 people, shocking a country where tourism and other pleasures of everyday life were just reopening after lengthy pandemic restrictions.
The cable car fell around 60 feet and crashed into a hillside above Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, before rolling downhill into trees, Italian rescue services said. Thirteen people died on the spot. Two children, aged nine and five, were found with severe injuries and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Turin. The older child died, and the younger child was being treated for multiple injuries late Sunday.
ROME—A cable-car disaster in the Italian Alps killed 14 people, shocking a country where tourism and other pleasures of everyday life were just reopening after lengthy pandemic restrictions.
The cable car fell around 60 feet and crashed into a hillside above Lake Maggiore in northern Italy, before rolling downhill into trees, Italian rescue services said. Thirteen people died on the spot. Two children, aged nine and five, were found with severe injuries and flown by helicopter to a hospital in Turin. The older child died, and the younger child was being treated for multiple injuries late Sunday.
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