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Pakistan: Cable car drama in Pakistan: All occupants freed

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Cable car drama in Pakistan: All occupants freed

The gondola now only hangs on a single rope. photo

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Six students and two adults are in a gondola when wires snap. They wait for hours at a great height and are only secured by a steel cable. Finally there is the all clear

In In a dramatic rescue mission in Pakistan, all occupants of a cable car gondola have been freed. Six children and two adults were rescued late Tuesday evening (local time), confirmed the civil protection of the German Press Agency. The gondola was only hanging on a steel cable after two wires broke in the morning.

Army special forces had previously tried for hours to save the people in the gondola. However, when it got dark, the action was interrupted. In the evening, after close consultation with the military, helpers from the region used devices on the wire to the gondola and freed the remaining occupants, as videos on social media showed.

“I was relieved to learn that all the children were successfully and safely rescued. Great teamwork from the military, rescue services, district administration and local people,” Acting Prime Minister Anwaarul Haq Kakar wrote on X, formerly Twitter.