Local media reported a total of nine very seriously injured people, which Mr. Azcón did not confirm.
All the skiers who remained suspended in their chairlift were able to be rescued, he added.
“We suddenly heard a noise and we fell to the ground, in the chairlift. We bounced five times, up, down and our backs hurt and got hit but there were people who fell from the chairlifts “, said María Moreno, one of the victims, on public television.
“We were very scared,” she added.
-A young person who witnessed the incident, also on TVE, said he saw a cable from the chairlift mechanism jump. “Suddenly the chairlifts started bouncing and people were flying,” he described.
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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