A delicate rescue operation involving helicopters is under way.
Members of the military have rescued two children from a cable car dangling hundreds of feet above the ground in a remote part of Pakistan.
Relatives of those trapped prayed while anxiously watching the operation unfold. The rescue has also transfixed Pakistanis across the country who crowded around televisions in offices, shops, restaurants and hospitals. One of the cables snapped while the eight people were crossing a river canyon in Battagram district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.The children had been on their way to school, and villagers frequently use cable cars to get around Pakistan’s mountainous regions. But the cars are often poorly maintained and every year people die or are injured while traveling in them.
Pakistan’s caretaker prime minister, Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar, wrote on Twitter, now renamed as X, that he ordered authorities “to urgently ensure safe rescue and evacuation of the 8 people”.
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