Army takes action to rescue 8 trapped in KPK cable car - Pakistan
Rescue mission complicated due to gusty winds * Helicopter’s rotor blades risk further destabilising lift
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Rescue mission complicated due to gusty winds * Helicopter’s rotor blades risk further destabilising lift
Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep Pakistani valley on Tuesday, as a military helicopter hovered nearby. The children were using the chairlift to cross the valley to get to school when a cable broke at a height of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 metres) midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
'For God’s sake help us'; helicopter rescue mission hampered by high winds, officials say
The children were using the cable car to cross the valley to get to school but were trapped 1,200ft above the ground in a mountainous area in Battagram, about 120 miles north of Islamabad.
At least six children and two adults were trapped over a deep valley inside a cable car in a remote, mountainous part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province even as rescue operations are underway