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Four people were killed and a seriously injured when their cable car plunged into a ravine in Italy on Thursday, local authorities announced.
The accident occurred after a cable on the Cablodistribution of Monte Faith near Sorrento was broken by bad weather, according to Vincenzo de Luca, the president of the Campania region in southern Italy.
Witnesses on the ground said that the cable car had dropped in the valley below, hitting a pylon going down. He would also have struck a crane on a construction site.
De Luca said that the car that fell had two couples and a cable worker on board.
According to Italian firefighters, one person survived the fall, but was seriously injured and in hospital at a hospital in Naples.
The cable -distribution, which reopened on April 10 after the renovations, extends from Castellammare di Stabia between Naples and Sorrento about 1,092 meters from Monte Faito overlooking the Bay of Naples and the Vesuve volcano.
Rescuers have evacuated 16 people from cable cables, a spokesperson for Italy told CNN.
There was no cable car above the break, the firefighters said. Strong winds hampered the rescue effort and helicopter stakeholders needed in extremely misty conditions for more than 90 minutes to locate the wreck.
Tourists and foreign workers were among the rescued people, said Luca. An incident survey was opened by the local prosecutor’s office.
The Italian president of the Senate Ignazio La Russa published his condolences on social networks. “I learn with a deep sadness of the tragedy that occurred on the MONTE Faith cable car. I express my deepest condolences to the families of the victims and I approach a thought of gratitude to all the rescuers involved. ”
The local stations that connect Sorrento and the Amalfi coast in Naples were closed.
