Eight people, including six Childern, were stuck in a cable car more than a thousand feet above the ground on Tuesday in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region of Battagram after two of the wires broke. The Pakistani Army and Air Force are currently engaged in a search and rescue mission.
When everything happened, it was early in the morning, and the six children and two residents were on their way to the school. The cable car’s wires failed, leaving them trapped in the midst of a canyon encircled by mountains.
Dawn claims that one of the Pakistan Armed Forces’ Special Unit commandos made two attempts to access the cable car, and that the support chopper was last seen hovering over the chairlift.
One of the rescuers was hoisted with a sling while approaching the affected site to rescue a single trapped person. The rescue mission is complicated due to gusty winds in the area and the helicopters’ rotor blades that risk destablising the lift.
Allai Assistant Commissioner Jawad Hussain said that if the helicopters fail to rescue the trapped passengers, Rescue 1122 teams will use a snorkel to rescue them from the cable car. He said that the teams are alreay trying to spread nets underneath the cable car.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) estimated that the cable car is dangling at a height of 1,000-2,000ft. Due to the height and the hilly terrain, it was difficult for rescue teams to carry out a relief operation.
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