GEORGIA: EIGHT JAPANESE TOURISTS INJURED AFTER A FUNICULAR RAILWAY CARRIAGE DERAILS IN TBILISI

Record ID: 469242

  • Title: GEORGIA: EIGHT JAPANESE TOURISTS INJURED AFTER A FUNICULAR RAILWAY CARRIAGE DERAILS IN TBILISI
  • Date: 21st June 2000
  • Summary: TBILISI, GEORGIA (JUNE 21, 2000) (REUTERS) 1. PAN UP: FUNICULAR RAILWAY 0.05 2. SCU: DAMAGED FUNICULAR RAILWAY CAR/ LONG VIEW OF TRACK (2 SHOTS) 0.15 3. MV: HOSPITAL OF GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY 0.22 4. VARIOUS OF HOSPITAL WARD WITH INJURED JAPANESE TOURISTS LYING ON BEDS (8 SHOTS) 1.08 5. SLV: EXTERIOR OF TBILISI "VERE-PAL
  • Embargoed: 6th July 2000 13:00
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  • Location: TBILISI, GEORGIA
  • Country: Georgia
  • Reuters ID: LVABYY5ZDO3FZE61ERYWW6W8ZO1R
  • Story Text: Eight Japanese tourists have been injured after a
    funicular railway carriage went off the rails in Georgia. The
    cause of the accident is still unknown.



    A group of twenty Japanese tourists were riding the
    funicular railway up Tbilisi's Mtatsminda (Saint) mountain in
    the centre of the Georgian capital on Wednesday (June 21) when
    the accident happened.

    Twenty metres up the hill the carriage derailed and
    slammed into a post. The cause of the accident is still
    unknown.

    Eight japanese tourists were injured and taken to the
    emergency ward of Tbilisi State University's Clinical
    Hospital. Three of them were in a serious condition.

    Tbilisi's funicular system, including a rail and cable
    sections, was built by a German construction company in 1905.

    In June 1990, eighteen people died on the same slope when a
    cable car dropped to the ground after the cable snapped. The
    cable part has been shut down since then, only leaving the
    rail part operational.


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