The victims of the Italian cable car crash include a frontline COVID-19 doctor, 2 children, and 2 Israelis looking for relief from the conflict with Gaza

• The death toll from Sunday's cable-car crash in northern Italy has reached 14.
• Victims include a COVID-19 doctor and an Israeli family who fled the conflict with Gaza.
• Authorities have launched an investigation into the cause of the crash.

The 14 victims of a catastrophic cable car crash in northern Italy have been named in Italian media.

Prosecutors are opening an investigation into involuntary homicide and negligence after the car plunged from a height of 65 feet near Lake Maggiore, the BBC reported.

One witness told La Repubblica: "There was a crazy bang, then it felt like something was rolling and then another crazy blow. Finally everything was silent."

The crash killed people of several nationalities, who were all holidaying in the idyllic region.

According to La Repubblica, they are:

• Alessandro Merlo, 29, and Silvia Malnati, 26, from Varese, Italy. The couple were holidaying to celebrate Malnati's graduation.
• Researcher Serena Costantino, 27, and her boyfriend Mohammadreza Shahaisavandi, 23, an Iranian studying in Italy.
• Roberta Pistolato and her husband Angelo Vito Gasparro, from Bari, Italy. Pistolato was a frontline COVID-19 doctor who was celebrating her birthday the day of the disaster.
• Vittorio Zorloni, 54, his partner Elisabetta Persanini, 38, and their five-year-old son Mattia, from Varese, Italy. Zorloni and Persanini were due to be married on June 26, La Repubblica reported.
• An Israeli family, which included: Medical student Amit Biran, 30, his wife, Tal Peleg, 27, who lived in Pavia, Italy, with their two-year-old Italian-born son Tom. Their oldest child, a five-year-old, is in hospital in a serious condition. The family had just returned from Israel, looking to relax after the recent conflict with Gaza.
• Tom's great-grandparents Itshak Cohen, 82, and Barbara Cohen Konisky, 70, from Tel Aviv, also died in the crash.