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ISTANBUL, April 13, 2024 (AFP) – Rescue workers finished evacuating dozens of passengers trapped for 23 hours mid-air Saturday after a cable car accident in southern Turkey that killed one person. Ten people were injured in the accident, which happened late Friday afternoon in the resort city of Antalya when a supporting pylon collapsed. One cable car in the Sarisu-Tunektepe system plummeted into a rocky area, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said. A total of 174 […]
HELSINKI, Nov 6, 2023 (AFP) – Finnish authorities said Monday that a Russian telecommunications cable in the Baltic Sea was discovered damaged in October, roughly coinciding with damage to subsea infrastructure in Sweden and Finland. “The Russian salvage vessel Spasatel Karev began to repair Rostelecom’s Baltika telecommunications cable in the Gulf of Finland on November 6,” Finland’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement. The ministry was informed of the damage to the Baltika […]
THAKOT, Pakistan, Aug 22, 2023 (AFP) – Military helicopters and zipline experts on Tuesday rescued eight people, including six school boys, trapped for hours in a stricken cable car high above a remote Pakistan valley. The daring rescue began with a helicopter plucking two children to safety after almost 12 hours in the air as daylight faded, but the chopper was forced back to base in the dark. Then rescuers used the cable keeping the […]
BEIJING, China (AFP) — A man in China has been sentenced to seven years in jail for setting internet equipment ablaze after becoming enraged over a slow connection, authorities have said. The man, surnamed Lan, was at an internet cafe in southern Guangxi province last June when his frustration with the connection speed spilled over. He responded by destroying a public box containing optical fibre network cables, a local court said in a statement on […]
(Eagle News)–Metro Rail Transit-3 operations were suspended on Friday, Sept. 6. An advisory from MRT-3 said the suspension starting 6:42 a.m. was due to a cable of the Overhead Catenary System (OCS) being cut at the northbound Guadalupe Station, which caused insufficient power supply from Shaw Boulevard to Santolan. The MRT-3 said repair was ongoing so far. It said additional buses have been dispatched to ferry MRT-3 passengers to their destinations. “After restoring operations, we […]
