7 Die in India After Falling Tree Sends Gondola Cars Plummeting
By HARI KUMARJUNE 25, 2017
NEW DELHI — A tree lashed by strong wind crashed onto a gondola cable in northern India
on Sunday, sending two cars plunging to the rugged terrain below, the police said.
PAKISTAN INDIA 200 MILES JUNE 25, 2017
Survivors described a violent lurch when the tree hit a support cable of the gondola in Gulmarg, a noted tourist attraction
that carries sightseers about 5,000 feet up Kongdoori Mountain.
About 150 people remained stranded in midair for several hours in other gondola cars until they were rescued by the police,
said Imtiyaz Hussain, the senior police superintendent in the Baramulla district of Kashmir, who supervised the rescue.
Dangerous wind and dense forests hampered officers as they used a helicopter
and all-terrain vehicles to search for the victims, who were described as a married couple and their two young daughters on vacation from New Delhi, two tour guides and a gondola operator.
"It was panic for three hours that we were stuck on the cable car," Rekha Lakhanpal, who
was in the car behind the two carrying the people who died, told The Hindustan Times.
