The telephone accident in Italy kills 4 people in Monte Faito, in southern Naples

Milan – A cable car carrying tourists in southern Naples crashed on the floor on Thursday after a cable was made a cable, killing at least four people and was critically injured, according to officials.

The cable caused caused the cable cars up and down as they crossed Monte Faito in the city of Castellammare di Stil. The ascending cable car crashed, causing fatalities and injuries, while eight tourists and a operator were evacuated from the descending cable car, said Naples prefect, Michele de Bari.

Three tourists were among four people who died, including a British woman and an Israeli woman, according to Marco de Rosa, the spokeswoman for the mayor of the local city of Vico Equense. Only two of the three foreign victims had been identified in the morning after the accident.

Four deaths in Italian car accident near Naples — You can see a cable car pylon at the scene of an accident that killed four people in Monte Faito, near Naples, Italy, on April 17, 2025.

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Italian prosecutors have opened an investigation into multiple murders and guilty disasters.

« The traction cable was broken. The emergency brake downstream, but obviously not that of the cabin entering the station, » said Castellammare mayor Luigi Vicinanza.

The alpine rescue of Italy, along with firefighters, police and civil protection services, responded to the accident.

The accident occurred just one week after the cable car, popular with its sight over Mount Vesuvi and Naples Bay, reopened for the season.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni expressed condolences for the victims and their families, and said that he was in contact with the lifeguards. He was in Washington, where he met with United States President Donald Trump.

Fourteen people died in a similar way Accident by 2021 When a cable broke in the picturesque region of Lake northern Italy, sending a cable car to the ground and then fell on a slope.