PARIS – Helicopters are being sent to rescue 110 people stuck at over 3,000 metres altitude in a cable car that links France and Italy near Europe’s highest mountain, the Mont Blanc, police said.
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The scenic cable-car journey is 5 km long and usually takes 35 minutes, but passengers have been stuck there for about two hours.
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“We will evacuate passengers by air, with police helicopters but also private ones called in by local authorities,” a spokesman for the local gendarmerie police said.
France 3 television said the cable car was stopped after cables got tangled in high wind.