High above a ravine, authorities race against time in an “extremely dangerous” rescue operation hampered by strong winds.
Two adults and six children were left suspended in the air this Tuesday in the middle of the journey with a handmade cable car in a mountainous region of northwestern Pakistanwhere they try rescue them with Pakistani army helicopters.
The minors used the cabin to go to the schoollocated on the other side of the valley in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In the middle of the journey, the cabin was paralyzed at more than 300 meters of altitudeafter one of the cable car cables stopped working.
“For God’s sake, help us”he declared in a telephone interview with AFP Ghoul Farazone of the adults trapped in the cabin, which became locked at 7 local (2 GMT).
army helicopters they effected reconnaissance operations near to Cableway and a soldier came down with a harness to give them food, water and medicationexplained Tanveer Ur Rehmana regional government official.
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“It is a delicate operation that demands meticulous precision”explained urrehmanabout a rescue in which the helicopter cannot get too close to the cockpitsince with the generated air it can break the only chain that supports the cable car.
“Each time the helicopter brought the rescuer close to the cable car, the wind caused by the helicopter made shake and unbalanced the cabinwhat he did cry children“he told the Geo News television network, ghulamullahpresident of the valley of therewhere the accident occurred.
Are craft boothswhich work with cables or even with simple stringsare common in Pakistan to comunicate isolated villages in mountainous areas. Ten people they had already dead in a similar accident 2017 near the capital Islamabad.
Source: Ambito
