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Pakistani rescuers pulled seven children and one man to safety after their cable car became stranded high over a remote ravine on Tuesday, ending an ordeal lasting more than 15 hours.It was a unique operation that required lots of skill,& the military said in a statement.The high-risk operation in the north of Pakistan was completed in the darkness of night after the cable car snagged early in the morning, leaving it hanging precariously at an angle all day, Reuters reported.All the kids have been successfully and safely rescued,& caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said in a post on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.Great team work by the military, rescue departments, district administration as well as the local people.A military helicopter rescue operation was called off as night fell after two children had been pulled to safety.
Flood lights were installed and a ground-based rescue continued.A security source said that cable crossing experts had been trying to rescue the children one by one by transferring them on to a small platform along the cable.Before the helicopter rescue was called off, TV footage showed one child being lifted off the cable car in a harness, swinging side to side, before being lowered to the ground.The rescue effort transfixed the country, with Pakistanis crowded around television sets, as media showed footage of an emergency worker dangling from a helicopter cable close to the small cabin, with those onboard cramped together.An extremely difficult and complicated operation has been successfully completed by the Pakistan military,& the military said in a statement.One of the cable lines carrying the car snapped at around 7 a.m.
as the students were traveling to school in a mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km north of Islamabad, officials said.The cable car got stuck half way across the ravine, about 275 meters (900 feet) above ground, Shariq Riaz Khattak a rescue official at the site, told Reuters.The helicopter rescue mission had been complicated by gusty winds in the area and the fact that the helicopters& rotor blades risked further destabilizing the lift, he said.The post Pakistan cable car ordeal ends, all 8 rescued first appeared on Ariana News.





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