Gulmarg cable car crash: All security norms were followed, claim officials, term accident 'act of God'

New Delhi: "Act of God", said officials, on Monday, on cable car crash in Gulmarg on Sunday in which seven persons got killed. They claimed all security norms were followed, reported news agency PTI. On Sunday, four tourists from Delhi and three others had died after a tree fell on the Gandola cable car. The deceased tourists from Delhi had been identified as: Jayant Andraskar, his wife Manshea andraskar, and daughters Anagha and Janhvi. Their guide Mukthar Ahmad Ganai also died. The Andraskar family lived in Shalimar Bagh in Delhi. The identification of other deceased was awaited. Former Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah had targeted the administration and questioned why were the operations of the cable care not stopped when there was a storm. He had tweeted, "If this is what happened it begs the question as to why the cable car operations weren't suspended in high winds. That's a laid down SOP." Gulmarg Gondola is the world's second highest operating cable car since the closure in 2008 of the Merida cable car in Venezuela and the opening in 2008 of the Dagu Glacier Gondola in Sichuan, China which reaches 4,843 meters. (With inputs from agencies)