Srinagar, May 25 (NVI): Approximately 300 tourists were stranded mid-air for some time after the Gulmarg Gondola service in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district developed a technical snag on Monday, officials said.
They said the cable car service came to a halt following a fault, leaving hundreds of tourists trapped inside the gondola cabins.
A rescue operation was immediately launched by teams of the Army, Jammu and Kashmir Police and civil administration to evacuate the stranded tourists safely, the officials said.
They said personnel of 9 Rashtriya Rifles, along with local authorities, reached the spot and supervised the evacuation process.
According to officials, panic gripped some tourists, including women and children, after the gondola stopped mid-air, but the situation remained under control.
Technical experts were pressed into service to trace the fault and restore the operations, they added.(NVI)
