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45 people stuck overnight in cable cars at Mont Blanc

On Friday, emergency crews were able to rescue more than 100 people- including several American tourists-trapped in cable cars over the French Alps due to a technical malfunction. The passengers were then flown by helicopter to Chamonix and the Italian town of Courmayeur.

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The boy’s sister, Italian tourist Maria Elena Perrone, 18, was rescued on Thursday, but then had an agonising wait for news of her brother and parents, who were in a different cable auto.

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“The extent of this rescue operation is simply unbelievable”, said Col. Frederic Labrunye, commander of the provincial gendarmerie group of Haute-Savoie. “By the volume of people to rescue-we rarely rescue 110 people at the same time”.

Four helicopters were deployed after 110 people became stuck when the cable cars stalled because of a “technical incident”, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said.

Rescue workers had stayed with the remaining passengers overnight, police said. This is when mountain guides used ropes to carry an additional 12 passengers to a glacier below, once again, one-by-one.

The top official in the HauteSavoie region, Georges-Francois Leclerc, said rescuers had been forced to halt their operation at 8.45pm on Thursday as they could not guarantee the safety of the pilots, rescuers and the people stuck in the cars. They included a 7-year-old and 9-year-old from Korea and a 10-year-old Italian child. “They were given special survival kits including energy bars and emergency blankets”.

Sixty people are stranded overnight after being trapped inside a cable vehicle in eastern France more than 3,000 metres above sea level.

Delisle also mentioned that there was a Korean family in the cable vehicle ahead of them, whom Delisle had said were in greater trouble because they did not understand the language and thus did not comprehend what was happening.

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Chamonix Mayor Eric Fournier said that fog and darkness caused the helicopters to stop rescuing tourists after 65 were taken off.

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