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More than 30 tourists, including a 10-year-old child, were trapped overnight in cable cars thousands of metres up in the French Alps.
The good news is that they were set to reach the ground on Friday, the operators said
The cable cars “restarted five minutes ago, the last cable (which was blocking the system) was untangled,” Mathieu Dechavanne, CEO of the Mont-Blanc Company that manages the system, told AFP just before 8am.
He said the remaining passengers could now be rescued without the use of helicopters.
Around 110 people were initially trapped when the cable cars became stuck at 3.40pm Thursday at an altitude of 3,800 metres in the Mont Blanc region after an unexplained technical incident.
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