At some point in the 46-hour rescue, Binay Kumar Das asked his family members to urinate in the empty water bottles; there was no water left. They were among 60 passengers stranded mid-air in cable cars along the 766-metre ropeway at Deoghar’s Trikut hills in Jharkhand. Before the ordeal could force them to consume urine, they were rescued while three tourists couldn’t make it.
Among the three dead, Sumati Devi was fatally injured in a collision of cabin cars triggered by the snapping of a portion of the ropeway wire. Rakesh Nandan fell to death after slipping off the rescue chopper during the airlift and Shobha Devi couldn’t survive injuries while being extricated from an entangled safety belt.
