7 Die in India After Falling Tree Sends Gondola Cars Plummeting<br />By HARI KUMARJUNE 25, 2017<br />NEW DELHI — A tree lashed by strong wind crashed onto a gondola cable in northern India<br />on Sunday, sending two cars plunging to the rugged terrain below, the police said.<br />PAKISTAN INDIA 200 MILES JUNE 25, 2017<br />Survivors described a violent lurch when the tree hit a support cable of the gondola in Gulmarg, a noted tourist attraction<br />that carries sightseers about 5,000 feet up Kongdoori Mountain.<br />About 150 people remained stranded in midair for several hours in other gondola cars until they were rescued by the police,<br />said Imtiyaz Hussain, the senior police superintendent in the Baramulla district of Kashmir, who supervised the rescue.<br />Dangerous wind and dense forests hampered officers as they used a helicopter<br />and all-terrain vehicles to search for the victims, who were described as a married couple and their two young daughters on vacation from New Delhi, two tour guides and a gondola operator.<br />"It was panic for three hours that we were stuck on the cable car," Rekha Lakhanpal, who<br />was in the car behind the two carrying the people who died, told The Hindustan Times.
