A major incident occurred in northern Italy which has left at least 14 people dead after a cable sending a cable car falling near a mountain peak. Two injured children were airlifted to Turin, hospitalized with "serious" injuries.

The accident happened on Sunday in the Italian Alps on the cableway line which connects the commune of Stresa near Lake Maggiore with the top of Mount Mottarone.

The cable car fell from a “relatively high point,” an alpine rescue service spokesman, Walter Milan, told Italy’s Rai News broadcaster, adding that it appears to be “completely crumpled” and almost “destroyed,” indicating that the impact “was obviously significant.”

Video of the scene showed first responders attending to the mangled wreckage on the forested slope of a mountain.

Israel's foreign ministry told the news media that at least six of those killed were Israeli citizens who lived in Italy.

Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi offered his condolences to the victims and families of those involved in a statement that, “with a particular thought about the seriously injured children and their families."

A commission appointed by Italy's government will investigate the accident, according to an announcement Sunday.