The recorded cable brought both cars up and down and down to stop while crossing Monte Faito in the city of Castellammare di Stabia. The car car upwardly crashed, causing deaths and injuries, while eight tourists and operators were evacuated from the excavator cable car, the Naples Prefect Michele de Bari said.
Three tourists were among the four people who died, including British and Israeli women, according to Marco de Rosa, spokesman of the mayor of the local city of Vico Equense. Only two of the three sides of the victim identified in the morning after the accident.
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Italian prosecutors have opened the investigation of multiple mascus and curved disasters.
“The towing cable broke down. The emergency brake was downstream, but obviously not the one on the cabin entering the station,” said Castellammare Mayor Luigi Vicinanz.
Italy Alpine rescue, together with firefighters, police and banking services responded to an accident.
The accident happened only a week after the cable car, popular for his views on the Mount Vesuvius and Naples Bay, reopened for the season.
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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed condolences to the victims and their families and said he was in contact with the rescuers. She was in Washington, where she met with U.S. President Donald Trump.
Fourteen people were killed in a similar accident in 2021. years When the cable broke in the picturesque lake in the north of Italy, sending a cable car with light on the ground, and then descending the slope.
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