30 injured, including 4 serious, in a chairlift accident near the French border

30 injured, including 4 serious, in a chairlift accident near the French border
30 injured, including 4 serious, in a chairlift accident near the French border

Thirty people were injured, four of them seriously, in a chairlift accident this Saturday at a ski resort in the Pyrenees in northeastern Spain, near the French border, local authorities said.

Terrible accident in the Pyrenees. More than thirty people were injured, several seriously, in a chairlift accident this Saturday, January 18, in a ski resort in the Pyrenees in the north-east of Spain, near the French border, said local authorities.

The latest report shows 30 injured, twenty of whom were treated within the station itself by the emergency services.

Four seriously injured transferred to hospital

“Obviously, there was a problem with the pulley of one of the chairlifts, which led to a loss of tension in the cable and the fall of some chairlifts,” he explained.

TVE, a local television channel, was able to collect the testimony of a young witness, shocked by the scene: “Suddenly, the chairlifts started bouncing and people were flying. We suddenly heard a noise and we fell to the ground, in the chairlift. Himself injured, he explains that he “bounced five times, up and down” and above all “had back pain and took blows”.

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Local media reported a total of ten very seriously injured people, which Jorge Azcón did not confirm. All the skiers who remained suspended in their chairlift were able to be rescued, he added.

Five helicopters and around fifteen ambulances were mobilized to evacuate the injured to hospitals near the station, where a field hospital was set up, according to the emergency services.

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