At least 14 people, including five Israelis, died and a child was seriously injured on Sunday when a cable car linking Italy's Lake Maggiore with a nearby mountain plunged to the ground, officials and rescuers said.

The Stresa-Mottarone cable car takes tourists and locals from the town on Lake Maggiore, almost 1,400m above sea level to the top of the Mottarone mountain in 20 minutes.

Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that it had been informed by Italian authorities that...