At least 30 individuals had been injured, 17 of them severely, within the collapse of a ski raise in northern Spain.
The Astún resort within the Spanish Pyrenees, the place the accident occurred, has been closed and emergency providers are on the scene.
Images and movies circulating on social media present some individuals mendacity within the snow underneath the ski raise.
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez mentioned he was “shocked” by the information of the accident.
Ambulances and helicopters transported the injured to close by hospitals.
A Spanish public broadcaster studies that dozens of individuals stay hanging from the 15-metre excessive chairlift ready to be rescued.
A witness instructed native media that it appeared a cable had come unfastened, chairs had bounced and folks had been thrown from the raise.
The reason behind the cable failure will not be but recognized.
Images on social media present one of many chairlift’s flywheels off the spokes.
An eyewitness, Jamie Pelegri, mentioned on social media that it was the Canal Roya chairlift that had collapsed.
“Fortunately we’re nice however there are injured individuals, we noticed a number of stretchers come down,” mentioned Spotify’s industrial director.
The video revealed by the Spanish Civil Guard exhibits a helicopter flying over the scene earlier than touchdown to permit rescuers to disembark.
The regional president, Jorge Azcón, and the Spanish Interior Minister, Roberto Bermúdez de Castro, are touring to the ski resort to grasp the extent of the accident.
Azcón wrote on X: “All the required providers of the (authorities) are working to help the affected and injured individuals.”
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez mentioned he had spoken to Azcón “to supply him the federal government’s full help.”
