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MADRID (Reuters) – A ski boat crashed at a resort in Spain’s Aragon region on Saturday, injuring dozens of people, nine seriously and eight seriously, the regional government said. said.
About 80 people are still trapped, hanging from the ski lift of Astun, in the province of Huesca, according to the state TV station.
“It’s like the phone has gone down, the chairs have fallen and people have been thrown,” a witness told TVE.
The cause of the cable failure is unknown.
Ski resort officials declined to comment, and could not immediately say whether foreigners were among the injured.
Several helicopters were operating in the area to rescue the passengers who were still trapped in the seat and transfer the injured to nearby hospitals.
The Astun ski resort, very popular among Spanish skiers, is located near the border of Spain and France, in the Pyrenees mountain range.
