Rope car services resume to Lord Muruga temple

: Nearly three months after the rescue of 23 pilgrims stranded in mid air for four hours in a cable car to the Lord Muruga hill shrine due to a snag, services resumed today after the glitch was rectified.
The service resumed this morning and pilgrims were sent in batches, officials said.
All pilgrims, including six children and two differently abled persons, travelling in two cabins were stuck at heights of between 20 feet and 100 feet when the cable car came to a halt on way to Dhandayuthapani Swamy shrine on June 5.
They were rescued after a four-hour battle by fire service personnel who used rope ladders and bamboo baskets to bring them down.

The cabins' capacity was rearranged to carry 16 persons on the way up and 12 on the way down following an accident in 2007 in which four devotees died.