Four tourists were killed and 11 others injured when three carriages of the Darjeeling Rungeet Valley Ropeway slipped off the cables at Singamari on 19 October 2003.
The incident occurred around 11:15 a.m. S Chowdhary, site manager, who was arrested later, said the cable slipped out of the rails at the fourth tower from the upper station causing the carriages to be knocked off.