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Four people were killed and one severely injured when their cable car plunged into a ravine in Italy on Thursday, local authorities said.
The accident happened after a cable on the Monte Faito cableway near Sorrento snapped in severe weather, according to Vincenzo De Luca, the president of the Campania region in southern Italy.
Witnesses on the ground said the cable car plummeted into the valley below, hitting a pylon on the way down. It also reportedly hit a crane on a construction site.
De Luca said the car that fell had two couples and one worker from the cableway aboard.
One person survived the fall, according to…