An urgent rescue operation is underway to save eight people left dangling 900 feet above the ground in a chairlift when a cable broke in a mountainous region in Pakistan
August 22, 2023, 5:18 AMA photo released on August 22, 2023, by Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority, which said it shows a chairlift where six children and two adults are trapped hundreds of feet off the ground.An urgent rescue operation is underway to save two adults and six children who were left dangling 900 feet above the ground in a chairlift when a cable broke in a mountainous region in Pakistan, authorities say.
Pakistan’s National Disaster Management Authority said that they were working with the Pakistan Army and that a helicopter has been dispatched to the site of the rescue operation in Battagram, approximately 120 miles north of the country’s capital city of Islamabad.This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.
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