YABULI, Northeast China, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- Hou Shuangmei, a female broadcaster for the ski jumping results at China's 11th Winter Games, dropped from a cable car here on Wednesday morning and broke one part of her lumbar vertebra.

    Hou's doctor at the hospital in Yabuli town told Xinhua that besides the vertebra injury, Hou suffered fracture in both anklebones.

    The doctor also said Hou, 30, needs immediate operation which the town-level hospital could not handle.

    So far, Hou is in transportation to Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang Province about 300 kilometers from Yabuli.

    The accident took place about 20 minutes after the men's K90m individual event when Hou tried to take the cable car downhill with a female colleague.

    The car went so fast that Hou had no time to pull down the protective handrail. Unfortunately, she slid off the cable car. She got hold of an edge of the car with one hand and her colleague's arm with the other when the car left the landing area.

    Hou did not hold any longer and fell off the cable car at a place which is about five to six meters above the hillside.

    About 10 referees and other staffs crowded around the broadcaster.

    "I can't hold any longer and it was too scared," the broadcaster said with screams for hurt.

    "My up thighs and buttocks hurt badly," she shouted.

    Since no one at the venue was able to give professional medical first aid, the crowd comforted the wounded and tried to help her stand up.

    The crowd moved the broadcaster about several meters down from the place where she crashlanded before two medical officers climed up to her.

    One of the officer used bandage to fasten the broadcaster's legs and the crowd moved her onto a simple stretcher.

    The broadcaster was carried into an ambulance waiting at the foot of the hill. It is about 20-minute drive from Yabuli skiing resort to the nearby hospital in the Yabuli town.