At least nine killed in Austrian cable car tragedy
A helicopter accidentally dropped part of its load of concrete on a cable car at an Austrian ski resort today, and at least nine tourists were killed when the gondola hurtled to the ground and passengers were catapulted out of two nearby cable cars, police said.
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.
