Nine Germans Die in Cable Car Accident
From Times Wire Reports
Nine Germans, including six children, were killed when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a gondola at a popular Austrian ski resort, officials said. Ten others were injured.
The helicopter was carrying material to a mountaintop construction site when it dropped the block, knocking one gondola car off its wires and swinging others so violently that their passengers were thrown out.
Austrian radio said the victims were traveling to the glacier ski area above the Alpine resort of Soelden near Innsbruck.
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