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The death toll after a cable car crashed in Italy has risen to four people.
One person is still missing after the incident at Monte Faito, about 45miles south-east of Naples.
The cable broke on the machine linking the town of Castellammare di Stabia to Mount Faito, 1.8miles (3km) apart, bringing both the upward and downward cable cars to a halt.
All of those killed, as well as the missing person, are tourists, the president of the region said.
The cable car had been over a steep drop when the cable snapped, and poor weather, including mist, prevented rapid access by rescue services.
‘Four dead bodies were found and a fifth injured person was rescued and taken to hospital,’ a spokesperson for the local fire service said on Telegram.
‘The cabin at the top has crashed,’ Umberto De Gregorio, chairman of the EAV public transport company which runs the cable car service, wrote on Facebook, calling it ‘a tragedy’.
The upward-facing cable car crashed to the ground, and since then Italy’s alpine rescue team along with police and firefighters have been investigating.
Castellammare mayor Luigi Vicinanza said: ‘The traction cable broke. The emergency brake downstream worked, but evidently not the one on the cabin that was entering the station.’
There were eight tourists and an operator rescued one-by-one with harnesses after downward-facing cabin stopped in midair near the foot of the mountain.
Video captured the moment one occupant was lowered out of the cable car and towards the ground.
The cable car, which is popular with tourists thanks to its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, only reopened for the tourist season last week.
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