Six children and two adults were suspended inside a cable car dangling over a deep Pakistani valley on Tuesday, as
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 midway through its journey in a remote, mountainous part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
The accident happened around 7:00 am local time, with residents using mosque loudspeakers to alert neighbourhood officials across the valley. “The cable car is stuck in a place where it is almost impossible to help without a helicopter,” Zulfiqar Khan, an official with Pakistan’s 1122 rescue service, told AFP.
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