Italy’s transport minister has vowed to establish the cause of a cable car disaster that killed 14 people, after the lead cable apparently snapped and the cabin careened back down the mountain until it came off the line and crashed to the ground. The sole survivor of Sunday’s incident, a five-year-old Israeli boy living in Italy, remained in hospital in Turin on Monday. The mayor of Stresa, Marcella Severino, quoted witnesses as saying they heard a loud hiss when the lead cable snapped. Emergency workers at the scene of the cable car crash on Sunday. Their two-year-old son, Tom Biran, was killed at the scene, as were Peleg-Biran’s grandparents, Barbara and Yitzhak Cohen.

Source: The Guardian May 24, 2021 10:06 UTC