Nine killed in ski resort as helicopter accidentally drops concrete on cable-car

A HELICOPTER accidentally dropped part of its load of concrete on a cable car at an Austrian ski resort yesterday, killing nine German tourists, including six children.

Nine killed in ski resort as helicopter accidentally drops concrete on cable-car
Tue, 06 Sep, 2005 - 01:00

They died when the gondola hurtled to the ground and passengers were catapulted out of two nearby cable cars.

The accident occurred in the ski resort town of Soelden, 25 miles south-west of Innsbruck and some 300 miles west of Vienna, said Edelbert Kohler, head of the criminal police in Innsbruck.

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