Dozens injured, trapped in a ski lift accident in the north of Spain By Reuters | masr356.com

MADRID (Reuters) – A ski lift collapsed at a resort in the Spanish area of Aragon on Saturday, injuring dozens of folks, 9 of them very severely and eight severely, the regional authorities stated.

Round 80 folks stay trapped, hanging in the chairlift at the ski resort of Astun, in the province of Huesca, in line with state TV channel TVE.

“It is like a cable has come off, the chairs have bounced and folks have been thrown off,” a witness informed TVE.

The trigger of the cable failure stays unknown.

The ski resort’s administration declined to remark and was not instantly capable of say if foreigners had been amongst the injured.

A number of helicopters had been working in the space to rescue the skiers who had been nonetheless trapped on the chairlift and switch the injured to close by hospitals.

The Astun ski resort, primarily standard amongst Spanish skiers, is positioned near the Spanish border with France, in the Pyrenees mountain vary.