Cable car crash kills one before two plummet to death from rescue helicopter and others left dangling for days in India

A rescuer carries a child to a helicopter during a rescue operation after mid-air collision of two cable cars. Pic: Indian Air Force.

The collision on Sunday left almost 50 passengers trapped and dangling above the ground, with some of those on board forced to wait until Tuesday before being lifted to safety by military rescuers. One person died as a direct result of the collision on the pilgrim cableway, but two tourists - a man and a woman fell their deaths on Monday and Tuesday respectively, officials in Jharkhand state's Deoghar district said.

"Of the remaining 15 people trapped in cable cars, 14 have been rescued while a woman fell off the chopper during the course of the rescue operation," police chief RK Mallick told The Times of India. Most of the passengers in the dangling cars were rescued on Monday but three were not lifted to safety until Tuesday, said Subhash Chandra Jat, another police chief of Deoghar where the incident occurred in remote hilly territory.Helicopter rescue from cable car crash.The cars collided when one of them became partly dislodged from its cable, Mr Jat said.

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