Sole survivor in cable car drama in Italy loses whole family

Only two of the 15 passengers survived the break in the Stresa-Mottarone cable car on Whitsunday on the Italian side of Lake Maggiore. For reasons that are still unexplained, the wire rope cut. At 12.30 p.m. the gondola crashed into the wooded mountainside after the last mast, around 300 meters from the mountain station. 13 people died on the spot.

Rescuers were able to recover two survivors: a younger and an older child. Shortly before 3 p.m., the two seriously injured were flown by helicopter to the Regina Margherita hospital in Turin. Doctors described her condition as critical, like that “Corriere della Sera” reported.