A cable car carrying tourists south of Naples crashed to the ground Thursday after a cable snapped, killing at least four people and critically injuring one, officials said.

According to Italian newspaper la Repubblica, one of the four fatalities is an Israeli woman. The report said another Israeli tourist was critically wounded and being treated at a hospital’s intensive care unit.

The identifies of the two Israelis was not immediately clear. The other three fatalities were reported to be two British tourists and the cable car operator.

The snapped cable brought both the upward and downward-going cable cars to a halt as they traversed Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia. The upward cable car eventually crashed, causing the fatalities and injury, while eight tourists and an operator were evacuated from the downward cable car, Naples Prefect Michele de Bari said.

“The traction cable broke. The emergency brake downstream worked, but evidently not the one on the cabin that was entering the station,” said Castellammare Mayor Luigi Vicinanza.

Italy’s alpine rescue, along with firefighters, police and civil protection services responded to the accident.

The accident occurred just a week after the cable car, popular for its views of Mount Vesuvius and the Bay of Naples, reopened for the season.

Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni expressed her condolences for the victims and their families and said she was in touch with rescuers. She was in Washington, where she met with US President Donald Trump.

The cable car has been operating since 1952 and a similar accident in 1960 also left four dead.

In May 2021, a cable car crashed in the Italian Alps near Lake Maggiore, killing 14 people, including 5 Israelis, with a young boy from the family the sole survivor. In 1998, a US fighter jet flying a low level on a training flight cut a steel cable and 20 people in a cable car in the Dolomites were killed.