Not less than 9 people were confirmed dead Earlier today as a cable car linking Italy’s Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain in the Alps crashed to the ground on Sunday.
The Stresa-Mottarone cable car carries tourists and local people from the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 metres above sea level, to the top of the Mottarone mountain.
“This is the final toll of the accident as the car was carrying 11 passengers when the disaster happened,” Simone Bobbio, a spokesman for Italy’s alpine rescue service for the Piedmont region.
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wo other victims who were children nearly survived death as they were rushed to a nearby hospital.
