ROME (AP) - A cable car taking visitors to a mountaintop view of some of northern Italy's most picturesque lakes plunged to the ground Sunday, killing at least 12 people and sending two children to the hospital, authorities said.Rescue crews were continuing to search the area given possible indications that a 15th person might have been in the cable car, said Walter Milan, spokesman for Italy's Alpine rescue service.
The scene of the wreckage showed the crushed and crumpled remains of the cable car in a clearing of a thick patch of pine trees near the summit of the Mottarone peak overlooking Lake Maggiore.At that location, about 100 meters (yards) before the final pilon, the cables of the lift were particularly high off the ground, said.