Eventually, the technical team of the cable car operator, Timber Trail, was called in while local police monitored the situation. A National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) team was also deployed. Onkar Chand Sharma, chief disaster management secretary for Himachal Pradesh, said: “A total of 15 people got stuck in two cable cars. Four people in a cabin uphill and 11 in a cabin facing down. “
The video inside the cable car showed frightened tourists discussing whether they could risk climbing the rope. One older woman could be heard saying: “We can’t go down with the rope. We’re old. We won’t get down and the authorities are unable to take any action.” All passengers, who are thought to be tourists from the capital Delhi, were rescued on Monday evening (June 20), authorities said.
Fourteen people died in May 2021 when a cable car collapsed 65 feet along the slopes of Mount Mottarone near Lake Maggiore in northern Italy. Three people were arrested after the accident. Investigators claim that the emergency brakes were intentionally deactivated so that the cable car would work again as quickly as possible after the end of the closure.
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