Jharkhand cable car disaster: Over 40 hours on, 3 still stuck; 3 dead
A horrifying video showed a man clinging to a rope suspended from the chopper for several moments before he suddenly lost his grip and fell, leaving witnesses screaming in shock.
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Deoghar, April 12: Over 40 hours after a cable car collision in Deoghar district, Jharkhand, three people are still stranded in three carriages mid-air, and over 40 were rescued in a risky operation which invovled two Air Force helicopters & dozens of officials.
The death count in this accident reached to 3 when a person fell from a helicopter while being rescued last evening. A horrifying video showed the man clinging to a rope suspended from the chopper for several moments before he suddenly lost his grip and fell, leaving witnesses screaming in shock.
Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri said that the rescue operations were being carried out by combined teams of the Indian Air Force, Army, Indo-Tibetan Border Police and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF).
Water and food are being provided to the trapped people with the help of drones, officials said.
The death count in this accident reached to 3 when a person fell from a helicopter while being rescued last evening. A horrifying video showed the man clinging to a rope suspended from the chopper for several moments before he suddenly lost his grip and fell, leaving witnesses screaming in shock.
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Rescue operations had to be stopped after sunset last evening, as the ropeway runs through a picturesque yet densely forested area surrounded by hills, access to which is difficult except by air.
Jharkhand CM Hemant Soren has ordered a high-level investigation into the ropeway accident. "I express my deepest condolences on the incident on Trikut mountain and the deaths in it. There will be a high-level inquiry into the matter," the Chief Minister said in a tweet yesterday.
The Trikut ropeway, according to the Jharkhand tourism department, is India's highest vertical ropeway. It is 766-metre long.