Three pesons were killed when two cable cars on a ropeway at Trikut hills in Deoghar district of Jharkhand collided on Sunday afternoon. Sixteen tourists are still trapped in stranded cable cars nearly 26 hours after the accident apparently caused by a pulley malfunction while 32 others have been rescued.
The rescue operation by Army and National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel was still underway till late on Monday evening.
While two persons were killed in the initial collision, one person died on Monday evening when he slipped from the grasp of rescue personnel while being evacuated from a cable car and fell.