Six students and two teachers stuck on cable car in remote part of Pakistan
An extremely risky rescue effort is underway in Pakistan to rescue six children and two teachers trapped on a chairlift suspended 274 meters above a canyon.
A cable car spanning a river connecting villages in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district is being used by local residents to shorten the distance to nearby schools, government offices and other businesses.
The children used a chairlift to get to school but found themselves stranded as of 7am local time.
Disaster Management spokesman Taymur Khan said a helicopter had been dispatched to the scene on behalf of the interim prime minister to try to remove the eight children from the chairlift.
