JAKARTA - A total of 16 people were rescued from a cable car in the city of Pereira, western Colombia. Passengers were inside the cable car cabin when a strong earthquake occurred on Monday, August 10 and were successfully evacuated about six hours later.
Reported by CNN, Tuesday, August 11, the Pereira cable car service will remain suspended until further notice while safety checks are carried out.
Cable cars are a popular public transport mode in Colombia, connecting passengers in hillside residential areas with the city center.
Manizales, another city in the coffee-producing mountainous region of Colombia, also had to evacuate passengers and suspend its cable car service due to structural damage, as previously reported by the local mayor.
The latest data, the number of deaths due to a strong earthquake in Colombia reached 132 people, while 570 others were injured.
According to initial information, the earthquake damaged 1,575 residential buildings and 61 of them were completely destroyed. Buildings that suffered damage included 18 health facilities, 52 educational institutions, 18 roads, and seven airports.
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