• Piedmont, Stresa-Mottarone cable car accident: cabin falls, 14 dead.

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May 24, 2021 The sun disappears in an instant. That blue sky so close is lost in a few minutes, the light of a clear afternoon on a trip suddenly falls. And in the silence that follows the din of the fall, the day has already become another. Dark. Tragic. Without return. On board the cable car, which crashed yesterday in Stresa, after leaving from the Piedmontese shore of Lake Maggiore to reach Mottarone at 1500 meters above sea level, there were fifteen people. Fourteen died, only one child was saved in very serious conditions and hospitalized in prognosis reserved for Regina Margherita of Turin. Five families destroyed by the accident: three residents in Lombardy, one of them of Israeli origin. A family residing in Emilia Romagna and one in Calabria. 



The couple on a trip to celebrate a birthday

Roberta Pistolato, just yesterday she had turned forty. And he had sent a last message to his sister shortly before departure: "We are going up to the cable car". Together with her husband, Angelo Vito Gasparro, 45, they resided in Castel San Giovanni, in the province of Piacenza, where they both worked, but they were both originally from Bari.The couple was on a trip to Lake Maggiore precisely to celebrate her birthday. . The family in Puglia, however, has not heard from her since 11, when the woman sent the last text message to her sister. Roberta was fresh from her studies in medicine and worked as a medical guard at the Piacenza ASL. In recent months, he was part of the teams that had given their availability to carry out the vaccination campaign, both in the hubs and at home.



The young CNR fellow and her Iranian boyfriend

Serena Cosentino, 27, was originally from Diamante (Cosenza) but had moved to Verbania a few months after winning a competition as a research fellow at the CNR Institute for Water Research. Her fiancé Mohammadreza Shahaisavandi, 23, from Iran, was also with her on the cable car. He too was a resident of Diamante, but he lived in Rome where he studied. The boy had gone to visit his girlfriend in Verbania and together they had gone on a trip to the Mottarone. Serena had celebrated her birthday on May 4th. 



The family of Israeli origins

A couple, two children and the maternal grandparents. An entire family of Israeli origins who yesterday morning had decided to spend a day outdoors in the town of Lake Maggiore: Amit Biran, born in 1991, resident in Pavia and Tal Peleg, born in 1994, also resident in Pavia. With them the two sons Tom Biran of just two years and Eitan of five years, the only survivor of the crash. With them were also grandmother Barbara Cohen Konisky from 1950 and grandfather Itshak Cohen from 1939, who had come from Israel to spend the holidays with their grandchildren.



The couple of passionate engaged couples of the mountains

Silvia Malnati, 27, and Alessandro Merlo, 29, were two engaged

couples

from Varese. Silvia was employed in the

Kiko

cosmetics shop

in Milan. Both great lovers of nature and mountains, they had left together for a trip and had chosen the Mottarone between Lake Maggiore and Lake Orta.



The family and the 5-year-old child who died on arrival at the hospital

The fifth family is that of Vittorio Zorloni, born in 1966, and living in Vedano Olona (Varese). On board the cable car there were also their partner Elisabetta Persanini, born in 1983, and their little 5-year-old son, who died shortly after arriving at the hospital in Turin, where he had been transported in very serious conditions.



In reserved prognosis the surviving child

The conditions of the 5-year-old child who survived the accident of the Mottarone cable car remain serious. Admitted to the Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin, after yesterday's surgery the prognosis remains confidential. At the moment the baby is intubated and sedated. In the hospital, late yesterday evening, the aunt of the child arrived, the sister of the father who died in the accident with his wife and other two-year-old son.



The family, of Israeli origin, lived in the Pavia area. "I learned what had happened from the Whatsapp messages. I began to receive so many 'I'm sorry' and I didn't understand why ...". Thus, outside the Regina Margherita children's hospital in Turin, Aya Biran, aunt of the only child who survived the Mottarone cable car accident in which, among the 14 victims, there are the parents and the little brother. The woman reached Turin late yesterday evening. Doctor in a prison in the Pavia area, he does not unbalance his nephew's conditions, which remain critical. "We do not know what the direction will be, the trauma suffered includes a head injury, we have to see how the situation will evolve", he merely says. When she arrived in Turin, at the Regina Margherita Children's Hospital, it was late at night.Aya Biran is the aunt of the only five-year-old boy who survived the cable car tragedy, where the child's mother, father, two-year-old brother and grandparents died.



A family of Israeli origins living in the Pavia area, where the aunt is a doctor in a prison. After the messages on Whatsapp, "I called my brother who did not answer me, so did my sister-in-law - says the woman -. Two hours later we received confirmation from the carabinieri and realized that my nephew was alive because his name was not in the 'list of victims ".