Eight people, including six children, are stranded in a cable car at an altitude of more than 300 meters in a remote mountainous area of northwest Pakistan.
According to the AFP news agency, the children were using the cable car to cross a valley to get to school when a cable broke.
“The cable car is suspended from a single rope. Inside there are at least eight occupants, mostly schoolchildren,” Abdul Basit Khan, a senior official with the rescue agency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, told AFP.
The accident occurred around 07:00 local time (four hours less in Lisbon). The authorities prepare a rescue operation that will only be possible with the help of a helicopter. This operation will be carried out by the Pakistani army.
The cable car is suspended in the middle of a deep ravine surrounded by mountains, on a route often used to connect remote towns and cities.
Source: TSF
