Schoolgirl, 11, injured in Spanish ski lift collapse that saw skiers 'flung through air'

Witnesses astatine the Spanish skiing edifice reported seeing radical being flung done the aerial arsenic chairlifts collapsed leaving 10 radical injured, with astatine slightest 2 being said to beryllium successful a captious condition

An 11-year-old schoolgirl has been revealed to beryllium among the 10 radical injured aft a skis assistance successful the Spanish Pyrenees collapsed and sent them flying dozens of feet from their chairs.

The illness astatine the Astun Ski Resort successful north-eastern Spain on Saturday saw exigency services rushing to prevention those who were trapped. Authorities said 2 women, some 18, were successful a captious information and had been taken to an ICU.

One of the women was seen being airlifted to a adjacent infirmary and is believed to person suffered the astir superior injuries. The 11-year-old miss was besides taken to infirmary on with a 67-year-old woman, but some are believed to person insignificant injuries.

A constabulary probe has been launched to larn much astir the circumstances astir the collapse. Aragon county's authorities caput of emergencies Migeul Angel Clavero said the illness was triggered by the nonaccomplishment of 1 of the chairlifts to instrumentality that successful crook led to a nonaccomplishment of hostility and different chairlifts falling arsenic good arsenic 80 skiers being stranded.

The Daily Mail reported 1 survivor, who gave his sanction arsenic Oscar, told a Spanish TV station: "A pulley instrumentality appears to person breached oregon travel escaped and the cablegram started to leap astir and each clip it happened we went up and down. We were fortunate successful that we didn't deed the crushed but determination were radical successful beforehand of america who did deed the crushed and received blows to their faces and different parts of their body."

Another witnesser who saw the illness said radical were thrown done the aerial arsenic the chairlifts rattled up and down with respective being near hanging upside down. Others were flung disconnected completely.

María Moreno told TVE: "Suddenly we heard a dependable and we fell consecutive to the ground, wrong the chair. We bounced up and down astir 5 times and our backs were rather sore oregon were hurt, but determination were radical who fell retired of the chairs."

He continued: "The information is that we were precise scared. Another witness, who was not named, told the network: "It's similar a cablegram came escaped and abruptly each the chairs started to bounce and radical went flying."

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez took to X/Twitter pursuing the collapse: "Shocked by the quality of the mishap astatine Astun skis resort. I person spoken to Aragon president Jorge Azcon to connection him the government’s afloat support.”

Mr Azcón said connected X: "All the indispensable services of the DGA are moving to assistance the affected and injured people."