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10 killed in chairlift accident

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Islamabad: Ten people were killed and two others injured when a chairlift cable broke, sending riders plunging into a ravine in a mountain hamlet near capital Islamabad on Thursday, officials said.


The accident occurred some 30 kilometres north of Islamabad in the Charra Pani village in the tourist hill resort of Murree.


“The villagers use a chairlift to cross the river and it broke, coming off the cable, which killed ten people,” local rescue official Muhammad Farooq said. “Two others were wounded,” he said. The local police station confirmed the incident.


Chairlift accidents are common in mountainous areas of Pakistan, where the lifts are often used to cross rivers. Four people drowned when a chairlift broke in Diamer district of Gilgit-Baltistan in northern Pakistan last month.


Meanwhile, death toll from an oil tanker explosion in central Pakistan has risen to 174, officials said on Thursday, including the driver who warned people scooping up spilled fuel to stay away but was ignored.


The tanker overturned early on Sunday on a main highway from Karachi to Lahore while carrying some 40,000 litres of fuel.


It exploded minutes later as crowds from a nearby village gathered to scavenge for fuel, despite admonitions by the driver as well as motorway police to stay away.


“According to our information, 174 people have died of their wounds to date,” Bahawalpur police chief Akhar Abbas said.


— AFP


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