At least 30 people have been injured in a ski lift accident at the Spanish resort of Astun in the Pyrenees mountain range, emergency services for Spain’s northern Aragon region said Saturday.Video above: Footage from an aircraft shows the scene of a ski lift accident in SpainRegional emergency services said 10 people needed to be treated in hospitals, including two who were seriously injured.State TV channel TVE reported that around 80 people were trapped on the chairlifts in the immediate aftermath.”It’s like a cable has come off, the chairs have bounced and people have been thrown off,” one witness told TVE.Fernando Beltran, a representative of Spain’s government in Aragon, later posted on X that “all the skiers affected by the accident” had been evacuated, and those who were injured were receiving medical treatment.The cause of the incident is unknown.Several helicopters were deployed to the area to rescue those trapped and …
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