Ten of the people involved in the accident that occurred this morning in Astún, Spain, where a chairlift collapsed due to a fault, were transported to hospitale: the emergency services of Aragon report it. Of these injured, two were hospitalized in serious conditions, while two others “required rapid assistance”. Another 20 people, according to the bulletin issued, were assisted on site without the need for transport to hospital.
A young man, witness to the events, told public television TVE that he had seen a cable in the chairlift mechanism blow. “Suddenly the chairlifts started bouncing and people were flying,” he said. According to media reports, five helicopters and around ten ambulances were mobilized to evacuate the injured to the nearest hospitals.
“All the skiers involved” in the accident “have already been evacuated”, just as the injured people “have been assisted”: the head of the prefecture of Aragon, Fernando Beltrán Blázquez, wrote this on X.