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A chairlift collapsed at a resort, leaving at least eight people injured
CCTV footage shared online shows a cable suddenly falling to the ground, with chairs plummeting into a lake below
One of the more severely injured individuals sustained a spinal cord injury
A chairlift collapsed at a resort, leaving at least eight people injured.
The incident took place on Friday, Aug. 8, in a resort area of Nalchik in Russia’s Kabardino-Balkaria region, according to the Russian News Agency TASS .
CCTV footage, shared on TikTok by Metro.uk , shows resortgoers traveling in individual chairs, before a cable suddenly falls to the ground.
Several chairs can then be seen plummeting into a lake below, and one passenger, who almost made it to the top, was captured holding onto his c