At least 14 dead after Italian cable car falls into mountainside
MOTTARONE, Italy / CNN — At least 14 people were killed in a cable car accident in Northern Italy on Sunday, officials said.
A spokesperson for the National Alpine Speleological Rescue Corps, which is leading the rescue operation, said a cable snapped Sunday morning when a group was riding in a Stresa-Mottarone cable car from the Lido di Stresa piazza on Lake Maggiore to the nearby Mottarone mountain in the Piedmont region.
The car was on a 20-minute voyage up 4,891 feet to the top of the mountain, when a cable snapped Sunday morning about 984 feet from the top of the mountain, according...