Italy Judge Releases 3 Held in Jail Over Cable Car Crash, One Under House Arrest

Italy Judge Releases 3 Held in Jail Over Cable Car Crash, One Under House Arrest
Police and rescue service members are seen near the crashed cable car after it collapsed in Stresa, near Lake Maggiore, Italy, on May 23, 2021. Italian Police/Handout via Reuters
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MILAN—An Italian judge ruled late on Saturday that three men detained over a cable car crash that killed 14 people in northern Italy could leave prison, with one of them being placed under house arrest.

In the crash a week ago, the gondola on a cable way connecting the Lake Maggiore resort town of Stresa to a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, killing all aboard apart from a five-year-old Israeli boy who remains in hospital.