Four people died and one was seriously injured in a dramatic accident early yesterday afternoon on the Monte Faito cable car in Campania. One of the two cabins, the one heading up the mountain, crashed just before reaching the terminus, after the traction cable snapped while the system was in operation. EAV employee Carmine Parlato, a train driver, and two foreign tourist couples lost their lives in the crash. The sole survivor, a woman, was transported by helicopter to Naples' Hospital del Mare. The other cabin, suspended in the void about twenty meters above the ground near the departure station, was carrying 16 passengers-mostly foreign tourists-who were rescued by firefighters and mountain rescue thanks to the emergency braking system, which went into regular operation. The tragedy occurred shortly after 2:30 p.m. Rescue operations were made difficult by bad weather and thick fog shrouding the summit of Faito, on the very day the Civil Defense had issued a yellow weather alert for thunderstorm risk. The tourist facility had recently reopened after its usual winter closure. The Torre Annunziata prosecutor's office opened an investigation for culpable disaster and multiple culpable homicide.