Custody fight over six-year-old who survived Italy cable car crash

After the boy was released from a Turin hospital following weeks of treatment for critical injuries, Italian youth court officials ruled that the child could live with a paternal aunt near Pavia, in northern Italy

The wreckage of the cable car after it collapsed in the Piedmont region of northern Italy (Luca Bruno/AP)

A six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a cable car crash in northern Italy earlier this year is at the centre of a custody battle between his maternal grandparents in Israel and his paternal relatives in Italy.

Fourteen people, including Eitan Biran’s parents and younger sibling, died when the car slammed into a mountainside on May 23 after the cable broke.