Video | A cable car cabin collapsed in Colombia; one dead and 20 wounded

One person died and 20 wounded left the city collapse of the metro cable cabin, cable car network from Medellin Colombiaas he was about to enter one of the stations of the transport system, in which about 250 users were locked out for several hours after its operation was stopped.

The Disaster Risk Management Administration Department (DAGRD) was notified at 4:42 a.m. local time of the cabin falling onto the pavement as the K Line route, which has four stations and is 2 kilometers long and served by 93 cable cars, each with a capacity of 10 users, was damaged.

“As a result of an accident on the Medellin metro cable at the entrance to the Popular station, a cabin in which 11 people were traveling fell, one of whom, unfortunately, died in a medical center due to the severity of his injuries,” the station director told reporters. DAGRD, Carlos Quintero.

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The official said that after the first fire brigade arrived at the People’s Station in the northeast of the city, 11 people were initially treated, stabilized and transferred to hospital centers, including The 55-year-old man died from “blunt trauma to the abdomen.”

20 injured, two seriously

After subsequent inspection and evacuation of other cabins in the system, Quintero reported that a total of 20 people were injured, two of them seriously, one with a closed chest injury and the other with an open fracture.

Meanwhile, teams specializing in altitude rescue carried out maneuvers along the metro cable line to evacuate nearly 250 trapped users in cabins that were suspended after the cable car system was stopped due to the incident.

Photo: taken from video

Medellin Metro manager Tomas Elejalde said the accident occurred when “a cab descending from the Santo Domingo station stopped entering another station for reasons we are still investigating and was hit by the following: They hit each other , and separation occurs.”

He stated that “this is the first time in the metro’s 29-year operating history that we are dealing with such an unfortunate situation with injured passengers,” so they will be very “reasonable” and “cautious” with the investigation. (EFE)

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Source: Aristegui Noticias

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