A British couple was among the four people killed in a telephone accident near Naples, the Italian police confirmed.
The cabin of the mountain cable car bowed to the ground after one of the cables that sustained it broke on Thursday, according to the reports.
The United Kingdom Foreign Ministry said it was in contact with local authorities, but has not confirmed the identities of the victims.
Prosecutors have launched an investigation as officials said the victims were three passengers and the cable car driver.
The Italian media have reported that two Israelis were killed, as well as the British couple, which has not confirmed the leg.
A fifth person in the cabin was “extremely seriously injured” in the accident on Mount Faito and was transferred by plane to the hospital, authorities said.
Sixteen people were rescued from a second cabin was on the line near the bottom of the valley at the time of the accident. They were with a subgloz.
The mayor of Castellammare Di Stabia, where the cable car is located, said he believed that a traction cable had broken.
“The downstream emergency brake worked, but clearly not the one in the cabin that was about to reach the top of the hill,” the Italian media told Thursday.
He added that he had regular leg control controls in the cable car line that runs three kilometers from the city to the top of the mountain.
Shortly after the accident, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, who was on a trip to Washington, expressed her “sincere condolences” to the families of the victims.
The Mount Faito cable car has been working since 1952. A similar accident in the line in 1960 left four people dead.
