Battagram cable car
Two wires of the motor-driven conveyor carrying school children snapped, leaving them stranded mid-air
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All eight stranded persons, including schoolchildren and a teacher, were successfully rescued by Pakistan Army troops in hours-long operation after two wires of a cable car snapped in Battagram’s Allai tehsil on Tuesday morning, leaving them stranded over 600 feet mid-air.
Military’s media wing, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), said in a statement that the GOC SSG himself supervised the operation.
The Ministry of INterior said the five rescued children are identified as Irfan s/o Amrez, Niaz s/o Umarzeb, Rizwan s/o Abdul Qayyum, Gulfaraz s/o Hakeemdad, Sher Nawaz s/o Shah Nazar, Abrar s/o Abdul Ghani, Attaullah s/o Kifayatullah and Usama s/o Muhammad Shrif.
The children, who have been stranded since 7am, were using the cable car to get to school in a mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km (125 miles) north of Islamabad, officials said.
Meanwhile, a notice issued by the provincial authorities later in the day stated that the incident occured at the GHS Batangi Pashto spot over the Jangri Khwar stream.
