Italian officials probe cable car disaster as lone child survivor recovers

Rescuers work by the wreckage of a cable car after it collapsed near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region (Soccorso Alpino e Speleologico Piemontese /AP)

Italy’s transport minister has vowed to establish the cause of a cable car disaster that killed 14 people, after the lead cable apparently snapped, causing the cabin to crash to the ground.

The lone survivor of Sunday’s horrific incident in northern Italy, a five-year-old Israeli boy living in Italy, remains in hospital in Turin with multiple broken bones.