Helicopters rescuing at least 100 people trapped in French Alps cable cars

September 09, 2016 01:23

A rescue operation is underway for as many as 100 people trapped in cable cars near Mont Blanc in the French Alps, CNN affiliate BFMTV reported Thursday.

Chamonix Mayor Eric Fournier told BFMTV that helicopters are being used to get the people back down to the valley.

It's not clear how the people became trapped on the Telecabine Panoramique Mont-Blanc, which traverses some of the glaciers and crevasses on the mountain and ends at an altitude of 11,000 feet.

French national police tweeted that 110 people were trapped in the cable cars.

The scenic cable-car journey is 5km long and usually takes 35 minutes, but passengers have been stuck there for about two hours.

"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.

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