Tragedy in Italy: funicular crashes near Naples, four dead

17 April 2025 , 21:39

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Tragedy in Italy: funicular crashes near Naples, four dead

One person seriously injured after accident at Monte Faito near Naples

Four people have died and one is seriously injured after a cable car crashed to the ground near Naples in southern Italy on Thursday, mountain rescue services and firefighters said.

The accident happened at Monte Faito, a peak 28 miles (45km) south-east of Naples. 

“The cabin at the top has crashed,” said Umberto De Gregorio, the chair of EAV, the public transport company that runs the cable car service. He called it “a tragedy”.

Italian media reports said one of the cables supporting the cabin had snapped. Sixteen passengers were helped out of a cabin that stopped in mid-air near the foot of the mountain. They were evacuated one by one, using harnesses, footage on Rai public television and other media showed.

Vincenzo De Luca, the head of the Campania region around Naples, told Rai that rescue operations were hampered by fog and high winds.

Sophie Walker