2023-08-23 06:30:00
eight peopleincluding six children on their way to schoolwere trapped in a cable car in northern Pakistan today, Tuesday, after some of the cables holding it up snapped, while the authorities work against the clock to evacuate them.
“The accident of cable car to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa it’s really alarming. I have ordered the district authorities to urgently ensure the rescue and safe evacuation of the eight trapped people,” Interim Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar said on social network X, formerly Twitter.
The accident took place at 08:00 local time (02:00 GMT) when two cables of the cable car broke and left the cabin stuck, said Secretary General Mufti Gulamullah of the Allai sub-district where the accident occurred. ‘incident, in the Pakistani media Dawn.
The cable car is at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, according to a document from the Provincial Disaster Management Authorities (PDMA) to which EFE has had access.
However, several regional media estimate that the cabin is stuck about 275 meters above the ground, in a mountainous region where, according to the neighbors, the cable car is the only solution to reach lower altitudes, so the rescue teams have requested the help of a helicopter to try to evacuate those trapped.
«Dos adults along with school students (are) stranded in a cable car in Allai (…) In view of this, it is requested to provide helicopter air support for the rescue operation”, says the PDMA document addressed to the National Management Authority of Disasters (NDMA).
Authorities fear the cable could break due to the air pressure caused by the helicopter, so rescue teams are investigating other methods to rescue the eight affected.
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One of the trapped adults told the Pakistani media outlet GeoNews by phone that the students traveling aboard the cable car are between 10 and 15 years old, and one of them fainted from fear.
He also pointed out that they have no drinking water or food, and that the battery of some of their phones was starting to run out.
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