10 more rescued from Trikut ropeway: ITBP
From the Webdesk, 12/04/2022, New Delhi, April 12 (UNI)
Ten people have been rescued since Tuesday morning, including three women and two children in Jharkhand's Deoghar, where nearly 50 tourists were stuck midair in the Trikut Hills Ropeway cable cars since Sunday afternoon, ITBP officials said on Tuesday. According to the Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP), at least five people could still be stuck in the cable cars and efforts were underway to rescue them. By late Monday, there were at least two killed in the accident -- a 50-year-old woman, the first victim, while an unidentified man who lost his life during a "botched" rescue effort, as his harness broke and he fell 1,500 feet in the valley below. As of Monday, 34 people were rescued. The Indian Air Force said it has continued rescue operations starting early Tuesday and it was progressing briskly. On Monday, the IAF deployed one Mi-17 and one Mi-17 V5 helicopter for the rescue operations and its contingent of Garud Commandos hours after stranded tourists heading and returning to the natural retreat got stuck hundreds of feet above the ground due to a technical snag. Cable cars remained suspended overnight with people stuck inside. The trolleys banged against each other causing desperate screams from the occupants, whose life literally hanged by the rope on Sunday night before help reached.