Spain lift collapse: Death toll reduced to 10 injured

Spain lift  collapse: Death toll reduced to  10 injured
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"People were  stealing": Eyewitnesses describe lift collapse
A chairlift accident at a ski resort in Spain has left 10 people injured, including two women in intensive  care.
The Astún resort in the Spanish Pyrenees, where the incident  occurred, was closed  while emergency services attended the  scene.
A pulley failure  is believed to have caused a cable to  snap and  several chairlifts to  fall to the ground, throwing skiers into the  snow.
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he was "shocked" by news of the  incident. Initial reports said  about 30 people  were injured, but local media later reported that 17  people needed medical  treatment.
Ambulances and helicopters  transported some of the injured to hospital. Two women, both 18, are in intensive care, Spanish newspaper El Pais  reported.

According to public broadcaster TVE, a pulley at one end of the  elevator broke and part of the structure supporting it collapsed, causing a cable to lose tension and several seats to  fall.
Dozens of people  who were left hanging  from the  15-metre elevator were helped  down. Jaime Pelegri, who was  in the  elevator, told the BBC that a cable lost tension before the  seats on his side of the structure  fell.
"It was very scary, but very fast," he said - adding that ambulances and helicopters arrived at the scene within 15  minutes.
In a  message on X  earlier, he wrote: "Fortunately we are  fine, but there are  people injured, we  saw some stretchers  lying around."
Images on social media appear to show one of the  elevator's wheels being pulled from its  vertical position. Authorities have not yet  specified the cause of the  outage.
Regional president Jorge Azcón and  Spanish Interior Minister Roberto Bermúdez de Castro  visited the  scene. Azcón wrote on X:  "All necessary  [government] services are working to  help the affected and injured  people."
Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said he had spoken  to Azcón to offer the  government's "full support."
A hotline has been set up for the families of those affected.
The Astún resort, which is  very popular with Spanish skiers, is located in the Aragon region  in the  Pyrenees, near the border with France.

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