Custody battle over six-year-old boy who survived cable car crash

The site of the tragedy near the summit of the Stresa-Mottarone line in the Piedmont region (AP)

A six-year-old boy who was the sole survivor of a cable car crash in northern Italy is at the centre of a bitter custody battle between his grandparents in Israel and relatives in Italy, who claim the child was flown without their permission to Israel.

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