Newly released graphic CCTV footage of a cable car disaster in Italy, in which an Israeli family was killed, shows the moment that the cables broke, sending the cabin down the mountain at deadly speed.
Fourteen people, including Amit Biran, 30, Tal Peleg-Biran, 26, their 2-year-old son Tom, and great-grandparents Barbara and Yitzhak Cohen of Tel Aviv, 71 and 81 respectively, were killed in the May 24 accident, after a cable snapped on the aerial tram bringing weekend visitors to the top of the Piedmont region’s Mottarone mountain.
The Biran family, with Eitan on the right. (Courtesy)
All five were buried in Israel a few days later.
Five-year-old Eitan Biran was the only survivor of the crash.
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