Abseiling girl crushed to death by cable car

The family of a teenage British holidaymaker watched in horror as she was crushed to death in a cable car mechanism as she prepared to abseil down a South African mountain.

The family of a teenage British holidaymaker watched in horror as she was crushed to death in a cable car mechanism as she prepared to abseil down a South African mountain.

Police Captain Andre Traut said Cara Weaver, from Dorset, had been told to leave the clearly marked no-go zone in Cape Town's Table Mountain moments before the tragedy happened.

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