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'This is our 9/11': Italian mayor describes how cable car tragedy has devastated the town as message from the Pope is read to packed church commemorating the victims and praying for survivor Eitan 'This is September 11 for Stresa,' Mayor Marcella Severino said last night as a message from the Pope was relayed by the local priest during a service for the victims and the sole survivor, five-year-old Eitan Biran  'The Holy Father thinks with emotion of so many lives tragically broken ... and sends his prayers to the victims and for little Eitan,' Father Gianluca Villa told the congregation whic...

Engineers noticed brake faults when the service reopened after lockdown but chose not to carry out repairs  A temporary fork device was installed in the brakes to keep the service running and avoid delays But the device kept apart the emergency brakes, causing them to fail on Sunday when the cable snapped Three people at the cable car company have been arrested on manslaughter charges overnight Sole survivor Eitan Biran, five, was placed in a coma after suffering head injuries and a broken leg His parents, two-year-old brother and great-grandparents were killed in the crash