Canadian police are investigating after a cable car gondola was sabotaged in an apparent act of vandalism.<\/p>\n
Almost all of the 30 cars on the Sea-to-Sky gondola in Squamish, north of Vancouver, fell to the ground.<\/p>\n
Police believe someone deliberately cut the cables in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n
The company said the incident happened at around 04:30 local time (11:30 GMT), when the line was closed, and no injuries were reported as a result.<\/p>\n
The tourist attraction’s manager told Canadian broadcaster CBC<\/a>\u00a0that maintenance on the line had been conducted recently “and it was a big, thick, beautiful healthy rope”.<\/p>\n The rope is a multi-strand steel cable, 55mm (2.2 inches) across.<\/p>\n Police said that technical safety experts were assessing the line.<\/p>\n Inspector Kara Triance told CBC experts would know the difference between a faulty cable and one that was cut deliberately.<\/p>\n She added that the person responsible put themselves in “extreme jeopardy” if they had climbed a maintenance pole \u2013 but also because the steel cable unravelling under tension would have been very dangerous.<\/p>\n “We recognize the potential of what could have been and are thankful that no one was injured,” police said in a statement.<\/p>\n The Sea to Sky operator, meanwhile, says that the gondola is closed “for the foreseeable future”.<\/p>\n Police are asking for any hikers, climbers, or campers who were in the area to contact them.<\/p>\n The gondola has 30 cars, each of which can carry eight passengers on the 10-minute ride to the top, 885m (2,900ft) above sea level.<\/p>\n Source: bbc.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"