An Arab-Israeli woman and a British woman were among four people killed when a cable car crashed on Thursday in southern Italy near Naples, local officials confirmed Friday. Marco De Rosa, a spokesperson for the mayor of Vico Equense, said that two of the three foreign victims have been officially identified, with Italian media reporting that the third is also British. The accident occurred on Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia, a popular tourist area overlooking the Bay of Naples. According to initial findings, the tragedy was triggered when a traction cable snapped, bringing both the ascending and descending cable cars to a halt and causing at least one to plummet. Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into multiple counts of manslaughter and culpable disaster. One of the victims has been identified in Israeli media as 25-year-old Janan Suliman, a resident of Mashhad in northern Israel. British media named another victim as 58-year-old Margaret Elaine Winn. The third foreign fatality, believed to also be a British citizen, has not yet been formally identified. The fourth victim was an Italian national, 59-year-old cable car operator Carmine Parlato. A fifth person, believed to be a foreign tourist and reported in Hebrew media as Suliman’s brother, was critically injured in the crash. He was rescued from the wreckage and remains hospitalized in serious condition in Naples. Israel’s Foreign Ministry said that the Israeli embassy in Rome is working closely with Italian authorities to clarify the identity of the injured Israeli and to assist the families involved. This is the second major cable car disaster in Italy in recent years. In 2021, a crash near Lake Maggiore claimed the lives of 14 people, prompting worry over the country’s aging infrastructure. (YWN World Headquarters – NYC)