ROME—At least 14 people died and a child was seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy’s Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain plunged 20 meters (66 feet) to the ground, local officials and rescuers said. The Stresa-Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the town on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400 meters (4,593 feet) above sea level to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes. “We are devastated, in pain,” Marcella Severino, Stresa’s mayor told broadcaster RAI, while Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi voiced his condolences to the families of the victims. The cable car was traveling up the mountain when the cabin fell some 20 meters (66 feet) to the ground and rolled several times down the steep slopes before it was stopped by trees, Severino said. People hiking nearby heard a loud hiss just before the crash, she said, adding that the accident was …
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