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Report says Eitan Biran has so far only been told that he's been asleep for a few days; mayor says Italian families offer to adopt child; Jewish community raises money for him
Local media says officials may make further arrests amid possibility more workers knew about issue; Israeli parents, toddler killed in crash laid to rest in Israel
LONE SURVIVOR Sole survivor, 5, wakes from coma after family wiped out in Italian cable crash as parents & sibling laid to rest Updated: 5:14 ET, May 28 2021 AN Israeli boy, 5, who was the sole survivor of a deadly cable car crash that killed his entire family, has woken from a coma as loved ones were laid to rest. Eitan Biran, who suffered injuries to his skull, chest, and abdomen, remains in a critical condition after the Mottarone tragedy, while his relatives were repatriated to Israel for their funerals. Amit Biran and his wife Tal Peleg-Biran died along with their son youngest son Tom B...
The prize money from Friday’s 19th stage of the Giro d’Italia will be donated to the victims of the cable car accident on Mount Mottarone that cost 14 lives, the professional cyclists’ association (CPA) announced. The route for the stage had already been changed so the peloton would not ride up the mountain, where the tragedy last weekend left a five-year-old child as the sole survivor. “The riders unanimously decided to donate all the cash prizes of today’s stage to little Eitan and to the families affected by this terrible tragedy,” said the CPA. The accident happened about 100 ...
Announcement made after grueling mountain stage of Italian bike race rerouted away from site of Mount Mottarone disaster, where nearly entire Israeli family was killed