Helicopter approaches dangling Pakistan cable car in high-risk rescue operation

Record ID: 1973614

  • Title: Helicopter approaches dangling Pakistan cable car in high-risk rescue operation
  • Date: 21st August 2023
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  • Keywords: Pakistan, Cable Car, accident, rescue, students, helicopter
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  • Location: BATTAGRAM, PAKISTAN
  • City: Battagram
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVA001616322082023RP1
  • Story Text:Rescuers on Tuesday (August 22) pulled out two children from a stranded cable car dangling high above a ravine in northern Pakistan, a rescue agency spokesperson and a district official said.
    Five students and one teacher are still onboard the cable car waiting to be rescued.
    The students have been stuck in the cable car since 7 a.m. (0200 GMT) when they were traveling to school in a remote mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km (125 miles) north of Islamabad.
    Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement that a cable had broken in the lift service and two army helicopters had been dispatched for a rescue operation after attempts at fixing the fault had been unsuccessful.
    The cable car became stranded half way across a ravine, about 274 meters (900 feet) above ground, and was dangling by a single cable after the other snapped, Shariq Riaz Khattak a rescue official at the site told Reuters.
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