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Old 5th Sep 2005, 20:09
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Conflicting reports AGAIN, News24.com states the following:

Tourists dead in Alps accident

Vienna - At least nine people died and several others were injured on Monday when a helicopter accidentally dropped a massive concrete block on a cable-car in the Austrian Alps, police said.

The victims were believed to be tourists, some of whom were knocked out of the cable-car when it was struck by the 750kg the APA news agency reported, citing the company that operates the cable-car.

The company said the block fell from a height of 300m onto the cable-car.

The block was being transported to be used in the construction of a telecommunications line.

A large-scale rescue operation was under way at the scene near the vilage of Soelden, which lies near the city of Innsbruck, local rescue officials said.

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