At least eight people have died after a cable car connecting Lake Maggiore in northern Italy with a mountain close by collapsed, the Italian news agency Ansa reported.
The Stresa-Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the town of Stresa, on lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 metres above sea level, to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes.
“Serious accident on the Stresa-Mottarone cable car. Alpine rescue, and other rescue teams on site. Two helicopter ambulances intervened,” the national alpine rescue service said on Twitter.
Ansa said the cable car carried 11 people and that two children had been taken by helicopter to a hospital in the northern city of Turin.
No one at the Alpine rescue service was available to give further details.