Eyewitnesses describe ski lift collapse

Eyewitnesses have described the moment a ski lift failed in the Spanish Pyrenees, leaving at least 17 people seriously injured.

One boy said that people were “flying and sailing”, when “the whole chair suddenly started bouncing”.

Ambulances and helicopters took the injured to hospital.

The cause of the chair-lift failure is currently unknown.

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