Swiss gondola cable rips at Titlis mountain resort
By DW
09 June 2019 |
11:50 am
Several people were injured in a Swiss resort town when a gondola cable snapped during maintenance work. Swiss emergency workers deployed four helicopters to the scene near Lucerne.
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