A cable car broke down over a valley in Battagram
Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep Pakistani valley Tuesday .
Children were using a chairlift to cross a valley to get to school when a cable snapped at an altitude of up to 1,200 feet (about 365 meters) midway in a remote area. , a mountainous part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
“For God's sake, help us,” Gulfraz, a man stranded in the cable car, told Pakistani Geo News TV by phone, confirming that there were eight people on board.
“It's been almost five hours since we got stuck in the air. The situation is so bad that one man has already passed out. The helicopter arrived but left without any operations.
The accident happened around 7:00 local time. , and residents use loudspeakers in mosques to alert local officials throughout the valley.
“The cable car is suspended from a single rope. There are at least eight residents, mostly schoolchildren,” Abdul Basit Khan, a senior official at the provincial rescue agency, told AFP.
«It's impossible to help without a helicopter»
According to footage shown on local television, the group had already been in the air for more than four hours when a Pakistani army helicopter arrived on the scene.
» it is almost impossible to help without a helicopter,” Zulfiqar Khan, a member of the Pakistan Rescue Service 1122, told AFP.
The cable hangs in the middle of a deep gorge surrounded by stunning mountains, where cable cars are often used to connect remote villages and cities.
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The National Disaster Management Agency said in a statement that six children and two adults were on board at an altitude of at least 900 feet.
Syed Hammad Haider, a senior official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ( HP), said that the cable car hung 1,000 to 1,200 feet above the ground.
“We asked the KP government to provide a helicopter because the rescue operation is impossible without the help of a helicopter,” he said.
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