Milan – A cable automobile carrying vacationers south of Naples crashed to the bottom Thursday after a cable snapped, killing not less than 4 individuals and critically injuring one, officers stated.
The snapped cable introduced each the upward and downward-going cable vehicles to a halt as they traversed Monte Faito within the city of Castellammare di Stabia. The upward cable automobile finally crashed, inflicting the fatalities and harm, whereas eight vacationers and an operator have been evacuated from the downward cable automobile, Naples Prefect Michele de Bari stated.
Three vacationers have been amongst 4 individuals who died, together with a British and an Israeli lady, in response to Marco De Rosa, the spokesperson for the mayor of the native city of Vico Equense. Solely two of the three overseas victims had been recognized by the morning after the accident.
A cable automobile pylon is seen on the website of a crash that killed 4 individuals in Monte Faito, close to Naples, Italy, April 17, 2025.
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Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into a number of manslaughter and culpable catastrophe.
“The traction cable broke. The emergency brake downstream worked, but evidently not the one on the cabin that was entering the station,” stated Castellammare Mayor Luigi Vicinanza.
Italy’s alpine rescue, together with firefighters, police and civil safety companies responded to the accident.
The accident occurred only a week after the cable automobile, widespread for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season.
Rescue staff get better a physique on the website of a cable automobile crash that killed 4 individuals in Monte Faito, close to Naples, Italy, April 17, 2025.
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Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences for the victims and their households and stated she was in contact with rescuers. She was in Washington, the place she met with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fourteen individuals have been killed in the same accident in 2021 when a cable broke in northern Italy’s picturesque lake area, sending a cable automobile plummeting to the bottom after which tumbling down a slope.
A map exhibits the placement of a cable automobile accident that killed not less than 4 individuals in Italy on April 17, 2025.
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