Two Dead In Jharkhand Ropeway Accident, Operation On To Rescue Others: All You Need To Know
At least two people have died while 48 others lay trapped mid-air in a row of 12 ropeway cable cars that collided with each other at Trikut hills close to Baba Baidyanath Temple in Jharkhand. 10 tourists sustained serious injuries in the collision that occurred around 430 pm on Sunday and one of them died late in the night.
At least two people have died while 48 others lay trapped mid-air in a row of 12 ropeway cable cars that collided with each other at Trikut hills, close to Baba Baidyanath Temple, in Jharkhand¡¯s Deoghar district.
According to the official, 10 tourists sustained serious injuries in the collision that occurred around 4.30 pm on Sunday, and one of them died late in the night.
Two air force choppers have arrived for evacuation, he said.
#WATCH | A recce was conducted by one of the helicopters in the morning and operations are underway in coordination with the district administration and NDR to rescue people from ropeway site near Trikut in Deoghar, Jharkhand pic.twitter.com/Mum5Tq73nq
¡ª ANI (@ANI) April 11, 2022
#Jharkhand - Trikut #Ropeway yesterday I was there .. I was in the cable car .. ? thank God me n my family is safe ..
¡ª Sonali Gupta (@sonali_gupta03) April 11, 2022
I hope for the safety of all the passengers
Incident: 48 people hanging in the air for 20 hours, the #ARMY is facing difficulties in rescue #Ropeway #jharkha pic.twitter.com/PUgydMhO9n
A team of the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) was sent to the spot for the rescue operation, Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri said. The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) was also assisting in the operation.
¡°All efforts are being made to airlift the tourists to safety. An NDRF team working since Sunday night has rescued 11 people. Locals, too, are helping with the rescue operation. Ten people have sustained serious injuries in the incident, of which one of them died late last night,¡± Deoghar Deputy Commissioner Manjunath Bhajantri told PTI over phone.
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¡ª Oxomiya Jiyori ?? (@SouleFacts) April 11, 2022
Sad news coming, 2 Dead, several trapped in a Cable car mishap in #Jharkhand's Deoghar, #IAF carries out massive rescue operations.#Deoghar pic.twitter.com/YI01bYfDkH
Asked about the reason that led to the accident, the DC said the entire district machinery was at present involved in the evacuation exercise, and a probe would be initiated only after the operation got over.
Prima facie it seemed that a technical snag caused the accident, the DC maintained.
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He also said that the ropeway was being run by a private company.
Operators running the system fled the area shortly after the accident.
The Trikut ropeway, according to the Jharkhand tourism department, is India¡¯s highest vertical ropeway with a maximum lens angle of 44 degrees.
The ropeway, situated around 20 km from Baba Baidyanath Temple, is around 766-metre-long, while the hill is 392-metres-high.
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