THE Pakistani army has rescued two children out of the total eight trapped in a cable car cabin, which came to rest over a gorge when one of the cables holding her broke this morning. The rescue operation is hampered by the strong winds blowing in the area.
Seven students and a teacher became trapped in the elevator around 7:00 a.m. local time (5:00 a.m. Greek time) while on their way to school in a remote mountainous area in Batagram, about 200 kilometers north of Islamabad, officials said.
Two children have now been rescued, said a spokesman for rescue services and a district official. No further details are currently available according to the Athens News Agency.
The cable car came to rest midway over a 274-meter-deep canyon when one of two cables holding it broke, rescue official Sharik Khattak told Reuters.
THE rescue operation is complicated not only because of the strong winds blowing in the area, but also because there is a risk that the helicopter’s propellers could further destabilize the elevator, he explained.
“Our situation is precarious, for God’s sake do somethingGulfaraz, a 20-year-old man in the cable car cabin, told local TV station Geo News by phone, calling on the authorities to rescue them as soon as possible. He said the rest of the students are between 10 and 15 years old and one of them fainted due to the heat and fear.
Rescue efforts brought the country to a standstill, with Pakistanis watching on television as local media broadcast footage of a rescue worker hanging from a helicopter rope near the cable car’s small cabin, with those inside huddled in the next to each other.
Crowds of villagers gathered on the steep slope anxiously watching the operation.
Muzaffar Khan, an official of the district administration in Batagram, clarified that seven students and one teacher were in the lift and not six students and two teachers as previously reported.
Source: News Beast
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