Four people were killed and one severely injured when their cable car plunged into a ravine in Italy on Thursday, local authorities said.

A fifth person was in critical condition after the cable car rolled down a mountainside. Nine others were trapped in a different cable car because of the crash and had to be rescued.

The cable car accident happened just a week after the destination reopened for the season. Sixteen passengers were helped out of a cabin that stopped in mid-air near the foot of the mountain. They were evacuated one by one, using harnesses, footage on RAI public television and other media showed.