Mother dies in cable car horror after getting snagged while loading luggage, clinging on while dragged 50 yards out over Italian valley then falling 500ft to her death in front of her husband and two children

A mother has plunged 500ft to her death from a cable car in Italy after she was dragged away by the mountain lift system in front of her horrified family. 

The woman, named as Margherita Lega, had been hiking with her husband and two young children during a holiday in the Italian Alps when the freak tragedy happened at around 11am today.

The 41-year-old had been loading luggage onto the teleferica machine – a small cable car used to transport baggage and objects rather than people – when her…