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Four people have died after a mountain cable car cabin plunged to the ground near Naples in southern Italy, emergency services say. Another person was "extremely seriously injured" in the crash at Mount Faito and airlifted to hospital, officials said. Italian media outlets reported that the cabin had been near the top of the mountain when one of the cables supporting it snapped. A second cabin was also on the line at the time but located near the bottom of the valley - 16 people were rescued from it and winched to safety. Prosecutors have launched an investigation as officials...

At least two children have reportedly been rescued from a cable car that has been stuck for several hours over a ravine in Pakistan's north-west. Members of the military have made several attempts to reach the group of eight, who became stuck when a cable snapped early this morning. The group was heading to school when it happened, leaving them dangling 274m (900ft) above the ground. Doctors are at the site to assess those who have been pulled to safety. The first child was rescued by helicopter, while the second was saved by locals using a zipline, according to rescue...

Indian military rescuers with helicopters lifted to safety on Tuesday (April 12) the last of almost 50 passengers who had been trapped mid-air since a fatal cable-car collision two days earlier, police said. The collision on the pilgrim cableway directly killed one person, and another fell to his death on Monday when trying to climb on to a rescue helicopter, a police officer in Jharkhand state's Deoghar district told Reuters. Most of the almost 50 survivors in the dangling cars were rescued on Monday. But three were not lifted to safety until Tuesday, said Mr Subhash Chandra Jat, the police...

The investigation into Italy’s cable car disaster that killed 14 people will focus on why the lead cable snapped and why the emergency brake didn’t engage and prevent the cabin from careening back down the mountain until it pulled off the support line and crashed... Transport Minister Enrico Giovannini visited the site Monday and announced a commission of inquiry to investigate the “technical and organizational causes” of the disaster, while prosecutors will focus on any criminal blame. The transport ministry said a preliminary check of the cable line’s safety and maintenance record show that the whole lift structure underwent a...

A group was riding in a Stresa-Mottarone cable car -- which connects the town of Stresa on Lake Maggiore with the nearby Mottarone mountain in the Piedmont region -- when it plunged into a wooded area Sunday morning, according to a spokesperson for the National Alpine Speleological Rescue Corps, which is leading the rescue operation. The accident occurred when the cable snapped just as the cable car was completing the 20-minute voyage from the Lido di Stresa piazza on Lake Maggiore to the Mottarone station some 1,491 meters above sea level at the top of the mountain. The cable broke...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said Wednesday he is convinced some cable car conductors are stealing fare money -- and that the Municipal Railway needs to change the way it collects cash to stop the thefts. Newsom said he believes conductors are skimming fares from cash-paying riders because on three occasions he rode the cable cars and handed over his $5 cash fare but never received the required receipt. The mayor said that another time he observed a conductor collecting five or six fares on a packed cable car "and didn't give one receipt for any of them." And, he...

San Francisco's famed cable car conductors and gripmen staged a 2½-hour strike today to protest the firing of two fellow employees, according to the city's transit agency and union officials. Cable cars from all three lines pulled into the service barn on Mason Street starting around 10 a.m. and stayed there until 12:30 p.m. The Municipal Railway put buses on the Powell-Hyde, Powell-Mason and California Street lines as replacements. "It's a personnel matter," said Maggie Lynch, a spokeswoman for the Muni. "The union has a disagreement with the way something has been handled. This is not a legal action." ....