Pakistan cable car incident as rescue under way for eight people trapped

A rescue is nether mode successful Pakistan for 8 radical - including six children - trapped successful a cablegram car dangling implicit a vale successful the country's north-west.

The children were making their mode to schoolhouse erstwhile 1 of the cables snapped, leaving the car hanging 274m (900 ft) supra ground, officials said.

Pakistan's acting PM has ordered rescuers to be the "really alarming" incidental successful Battagram.

Military helicopters person reached the car but the rescue's presumption is unclear.

The 8 passengers were trapped for much than 4 hours earlier a subject rescue chopper arrived, section media outlet Dawn.com reported. The incidental happened astatine astir 07:00 section clip (02:00 GMT) connected Tuesday.

"For God's involvement assistance us," Gulfraz, a antheral stuck successful the cablegram car, told Pakistan tv transmission Geo News by phone. He confirmed 8 radical were connected board.

"The cablegram car is stuck successful a spot wherever it is astir intolerable to assistance without a helicopter," Zulfiqar Khan, an authoritative with Pakistan's 1122 rescue service, told AFP.

A section teacher told Dawn.com that astir 150 radical instrumentality the hazardous travel to schoolhouse by cablegram car regular due to the fact that of a deficiency of transport infrastructure successful the area.