Six kids and two academics are trapped in a gondola dangling 274 metres (900ft) above a ravine in Pakistan after a cable had snapped, and excessive winds are hampering an “extraordinarily dangerous” helicopter rescue mission, officers say.
The youngsters, who’ve been stranded since 7am (02:00 GMT), had been utilizing the gondola to get to high school in a mountainous space in Battagram, about 200km (125 miles) north of Islamabad, officers mentioned.
The Nationwide Catastrophe Administration Authority mentioned in a press release {that a} cable had damaged within the raise service and two military helicopters had been dispatched for a rescue operation after makes an attempt at fixing the fault had been unsuccessful.
Al Jazeera’s Kamal Hyder joins us dwell from Islamabad for the most recent updates.
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