Cable car with 11 aboard stuck mid-air in HP, all rescued

Shimla: Eleven people, including five women, were stranded for hours after a cable car was stuck mid-air at Parwanoo Timber Trail in Himachal Pradesh’s Solan district, officials said on Monday. All of them were rescued after a sixhour- long operation, they said.

Later, a team from National Disaster Response Force also reached the spot, the officials said, adding the incident was reported around 11 am. Parwanoo Deputy Superintendent of Police Pranav Chauhan said the cable car carrying the eleven tourists had stuck at a height of around 200-250 feet near a mountain peak.

“That is why much difficulty was not faced in rescuing the passengers by sending them to the ground, one at a time, after tying a rope around each of them. A rescue cable car was deployed to get the people out,” he added.

The DSP said that the maximum height of the 1.8km ropeway is about 1,000 metres. Popularly known as timber trail, the Parwanoo ropeway is situated about 35 km from Chandigarh city on Chandigarh- Shimla road and it takes about eight minutes one way for the cable car to reach from one hill to the another.

Chauhan said an FIR is being registered against the owner of the cable car run by timber trail resorts. The FIR is being registered under sections 287 and 336 of Indian Penal Code. – PTI