Tourists stranded in Montjuïc cable car
Thursday, January 2, 2014 @ 10:46 AM
AT LEAST 70 tourists became trapped on a cable car leading up to the Montjuïc mountain in Barcelona yesterday (New Year's Day) after a mechanical failure left them stranded.
They were halfway up to the iconic castle when the 14 cable cars they were travelling in ground to a halt.
Firefighters had to set up a crane with steps to evacuate the tourists one by one, by which time they had been suspended in mid-air for several hours.
A back-up engine was fitted to the cable car system and each of the cabins was brought down manually to the nearest pick-up point, or as close to them as possible, to allow their passengers to get off.
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