Six injured in ski lift accident
Five children and a man were injured and dozens of skiers were left dangling in midair when a chairlift broke at a ski resort.
Eye-witnesses told the Daily Mail that it seemed one chair had become detached from the main line, causing others to pile up before they crashed to the ground.
Emergency services were scrambled from across the North-East of Scotland to the Lecht Ski Centre in Aberdeenshire.
Some of the injured were airlifted to hospital, but it is thought none of their injuries is life threatening.
36 skies had to wait in sub-zero temperatures to be freed from the lift, which ground to a halt following the accident.
Health and Safety investigators have been at the scene to determine what went wrong.
The Lecht Ski Centre, with 20 runs, is on the eastern side of the Cairngorms in Strathdon and began operating in the mid-1970s.
Linsey McNeill
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