Five-year-old boy is the only survivor of 14 of the 15 travelers who were in a cable car cabin in northern Italy that collapsed last night in a cable car accident.
Five-year-old boy is the only survivor of the cable car accident in Italy
Eitan Moshe Biran, born in Israel and living in Pavia, is, after the death of another minor, the only traveler to survive the cable car accident in which his parents, grandparents and two-year-old brother died.
14 of the 15 travelers who were in a cable car cabin in northern Italy, died Sunday after the cabin in which they were traveling fell.
An accident in which the rescue teams of the Italian National Fire Brigade extracted the lifeless bodies of 13 travelers from the damaged cabin. Initially, two children, only five years old, survived the impact and landed on the grass.
Insieme alle altre Forze in campo, l’Arma dei #Carabinieri prosegue le attività di soccorso per il tragico incidente alla #funivia Stresa-Mottarone di questa mattina ed esprime profondo cordoglio per le vittime decedute. #23maggio pic.twitter.com/K2wk9HdIaV
— Arma dei Carabinieri (@_Carabinieri_) May 23, 2021
Both the parents of Eitan Moshe Biran and Mattia Zorloni died instantly in the crash.
Both minors were taken by helicopter to the Regina Margherita children’s hospital in Turin and were listed in the first report as “unknown patients”.
Mattia Zorloni, had trauma to the skull and thorax, and a double fracture in the legs” conditions made surgery unfeasible, which Eitan, the now sole survivor of the cable car accident in the Piedmont region, could have resorted to.
On Sunday afternoon, the director of pediatric surgery at the Regina Margherita Hospital, Fabrizio Gennari, informed the press that Mattia Zorloni had died after a cardiac arrest, according to the aforementioned media outlet.
From the official Twitter profile of the National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps, the death of the minor was confirmed.
After the death in the Mattia Zorloni Hospital, Eitan Moshe Biran, who lost his parents and his two-year-old brother Tom in the accident, is, at the age of five, the only passenger in the accident cabin to have survived the accident.
However, the child, born in Israel and living in Pavia (Lombardy), is not out of danger yet, as he also suffered fractures to both legs and trauma to his head and abdomen.
At the doors of the Regina Margherita Children’s Hospital, his aunt Aya Biran explained that she realized that Eitan was still alive when they saw that his name was not on the list of victims.
During the surgical intervention that they were able to perform on Eitan, the fear that the minor felt after the accident was evident, which led him to shout, frightened, that he did not want to be touched by the medical team.
“Leave me alone, I’m scared,” are the words that have transpired from the five-year-old’s time in the children’s hospital.
