A cable car accident killed four in the south of the country – Liberation
Four people died this Thursday, April 17, after the fall of a cable car cabin in the Naples region, in southern Italy. « Four lifeless bodies were found while a fifth injured person was rescued and transported to the hospital »said firefighters on Telegram, adding that « More than 50 » of them were engaged in rescue operations. According to them, this is the final assessment.
The blur has hovered for several hours as to the number of victims: « The latest news five minutes ago, there were three or four dead and missing, it’s not clear, » said an official of the municipality of Castellammare di Stabia where the accident occurred earlier this Thursday. According to Umberto de Gregorio, president of the cable car manager, there would be three dead, a disappeared and an injured, the same assessment as that provided by the Ansa agency. The mountain emergency services and the firefighters, for their part, mentioned a seriously injured person and another missing scope, according to BFM TV. On the other hand, according to the Agency AGE and the websites of the main Italian daily newspapers, four people were found dead, while a fifth was missing.
The cable car connects the city of Castellammare di Stabia, in the Gulf of Naples, at Mont Faiso over a distance of almost three kilometers. The accident occurred following the breakdown of a cable in this cable car, while a cabin with sixteen passengers on board was very close to the city and the ground, while a second cabin was at Mont Faiso, above a precipice. Passengers in the first cabin were all quickly rescued, but bad weather and fog at altitude prevented those in the second cabin quickly.
This cable car was inaugurated in 1952 and so far a single accident had been recorded, in 1960, when a cabin fell to the ground causing the death of four people.
In May 2021, the fall of a cable car cabin had left fourteen dead and two seriously injured in Stresaseaside resort of Piedmont on the shores of Lake Major, in northern Italy. About twenty years earlier, on February 3, 1998, an American military plane had cut a cable cable at a ski resort in the Italian Alps, in Cavalese. A cabin had been rushed into the void and crashed some 110 meters below, killing its 20 occupants.
Update : On April 17 at 9:37 p.m., adding the consolidated and context assessment.
