Five killed in Gulmarg cable car accident
Sunday - June 25, 2017 4:52 pm ,
Category : INDIA
Five killed in Gulmarg cable car accident
Srinagar June 25 (IANS) Five people including four tourists and a local man were killed on Sunday when a gondola car cabin crashed hundreds of meters down to the ground after its cable snapped in Gulmarg in Jammu and Kashmir police said.
Five persons including a couple and two children and a local were killed in the accident a police officer said. Rescue efforts are on to save people trapped in other cars of the gondola cable car project.
The two-stage Gulmarg cable car lift ferries people to a height of 13 780 feet above the sea level. It is the world s second highest operating cable car project with a cabin capacity of ferrying 600 people in one hour.
--IANS
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