Around 320 tourists were rescued from stranded cable cars in Jammu and Kashmir’s Gulmarg on Monday after a technical fault stalled the service.
The Army, the police and the disaster relief force conducted a large-scale rescue operation after information was received about the incident around 1.20 pm, ANI reported. Late on Monday evening, Jammu and Kashmir Director General of Police Nalin Prabhat confirmed that the rescue operation had ended and all the tourists had been brought down.
Sixty-five cabins had been stranded in all.
Earlier in the day, Chief Minister Omar Abdullah’s office said that the administration was monitoring the situation, adding that all cabins were intact and there was no need to panic.
Written by Nachiket Deuskar. Edited by Neerad Pandharipande.
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