Dozens injured in ski lift collapse at Spanish resort
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Helicopters deployed to take injured to hospital and rescue about 80 people still stuck in chairlift at Astun. A ski lift has collapsed at a Spanish resort, injuring dozens of people, nine of them very seriously and eight seriously, the regional government has said.
Around 80 people remained trapped, hanging in the chairlift at the ski resort of Astun, in the region of Aragon, according to the state TV channel TVE. “It’s like a cable has come off, the chairs have bounced and people have been thrown off,” one witness told TVE.
The cause of the cable failure remains unknown. The ski resort’s management declined to comment and was not immediately able to say if foreign nationals were among the injured. Several helicopters had been deployed to rescue skiers who were still trapped on the chairlift and to transfer the injured to nearby hospitals.
The prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, said he was shocked by the reports. “All our affection to the injured and their families,” he added in a post on X. The Astun ski resort, mainly popular among Spanish skiers, is close to the Spanish border with France, in the Pyrenees mountain range.
