The children were using the cabin to get to school when she got stuck
Eight people, including six children, were stranded on Tuesday in a homemade cable car suspended high in a remote mountainous region of northwest Pakistan, official sources said.
The children were using the cabin to get to school when it got stuck about 365m above sea level, after one of the cables operating it stopped working.
“The gondola is suspended by a simple cable. Inside, there are at least eight occupants, mainly schoolchildren,” Abdul Basit Khan, a senior emergency services official in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told AFP.
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) said in a statement that six children and two adults were on board the cabin and the military had been ordered to carry out a rescue operation.
“We have asked the provincial government to provide a helicopter, as the rescue operation would not be possible without it,” said Syed Hammad Haider, another senior provincial official.
Gondolas are a common means of travel in Pakistan. In 2020, the authorities announced the construction of a 14 kilometer long cable car, the longest in the world, intended to connect the picturesque tourist resort of Kumrat in Haut Dir to the Madaklasht region in Chitral, at a cost estimated at 32 billion rupees.
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