Attempts to rescue cable car passengers stranded for over 46 hours in Jharkhand's Deoghar district ended with a tragedy on Tuesday as a 60-year-old woman fell to her death as she was being winched up from a helicopter, raising the toll to three.
However all other tourists, numbering 60, stranded since Sunday 4 p.m. in cable cars after a ropeway malfunction which resulted in trolleys colliding at Trikut hills, were successfully evacuated by Indian Air Force (IAF) helicopters.
Fourteen of the last remaining 15 tourists, who were trapped mid-air for more than 40 hours, were rescued during the day.
