Tourists among 4 killed in cable car crash south of Naples

The Associated Press

· Posted: Apr 18, 2025 8:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 11 minutes ago

Three tourists were among 4 radical who died erstwhile a cablegram car crashed southbound of Naples, Italy, including a British and an Israeli woman, an Italian authoritative said Friday.

Only 2 of the 3 overseas victims person been identified since the mishap connected Thursday, said Marco De Rosa, the spokesperson for the politician of Vico Equense, wherever 1 of the fatalities came from.

According to archetypal information, a traction cablegram snapped and 1 car crashed aft some an upward and a downward-going cablegram car came to a halt arsenic they traversed Monte Faito successful the municipality of Castellammare di Stabia. The mishap happened conscionable a week aft the cablegram car, fashionable for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season.

Italian prosecutors person opened an probe into aggregate manslaughter and culpable disaster.

A 5th person, who is besides believed to beryllium a overseas tourist, was earnestly injured and hospitalized successful Naples, officials said. Sixteen passengers were helped retired of the different cablegram car that was stuck mid-air adjacent the ft of the upland pursuing the incident.

Italy's alpine rescue, on with much than 50 firefighters, constabulary and civilian extortion services worked connected the tract each Thursday night.

"The traction cablegram broke. The exigency brake downstream worked, but evidently not the 1 connected the compartment that was entering the station," Castellammare Mayor Luigi Vicinanza said Thursday. He added determination had been regular information checks connected the cablegram car line, which runs three kilometres from the municipality to the apical of the mountain.

Firm says it met information conditions

The institution moving the service, the EAV nationalist transport firm, stressed that the seasonal cablegram car had reopened with each the required information conditions.

"The reopening had taken spot a week agone aft 3 months of tests each day, time and night," said EAV president Umberto De Gregorio. "This is thing inexplicable."

Investigators were conducting checks connected the functionality of the cablegram car and the anticipation that beardown upwind successful caller days was among the causes of the accident.

A cablegram car clang successful May 2021 successful bluish Italy killed 14 people, including six Israelis, among them a household of four. In 1998, a low-flying U.S. subject pitchy chopped done the cablegram of a skis assistance successful Cavalese, successful the Dolomites, sidesplitting 20 people.