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Four people died Thursday afternoon in the fall of the cabin of a cable car in the Naples region, in the south of Italy, on Thursday, April 17, the local town hall told Naples.
The Naples region in mourning. This Thursday, April 17, the cable of a cable cabin leading to Monte Fais, a few kilometers south of Naples, would have broken, causing its fall. Four people were killed, a fifth seriously injured, said the firefighters, adding that 50 of them were mobilized.
“The latest news, 5 minutes ago, there were three or four dead and disappeared, it is not clear,” said an official in the town of Castellammare di Stabia where the accident occurred, quoted by AFP. 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. 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 is missing.
A previous accident in 1960
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 16 passengers on board was very close to the city and the ground, while a second cabin was at Mont Faiso above a precipice.
The 16 passengers in the first cabin were all quickly rescued, but the bad weather and the fog at altitude prevented the passengers from the second cabin quickly. This cable car was inaugurated in 1952 and so far an accident has been recorded, in 1960, when a cabin fell to the ground causing the death of four people.
