“The army rescue crew is now attempting to make use of different choices together with a sling operation or rope ladder to save lots of them,” he mentioned. “This can be a extremely dangerous operation however the army rescue troops are carrying it rigorously.”
A second official mentioned a army rescuer supplied meals, water and emergency drugs to the youngsters within the cable automobile.
{A photograph} shared by Agence-France Presse information company shared a picture of a military soldier shifting down from a helicopter. The medication, the official mentioned, was supposed to stabilize the youngsters earlier than their rescue.
The group was touring throughout the ravineTuesday morning in Battagram, within the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, when the incident came about.
The cable automobile is hanging over a ravine by a single cable after the opposite snapped, Shariq Riaz Khattak, a rescue official on the scene instructed Reuters, including that the rescue efforts have been difficult by gusts of wind. Khattak additionally mentioned one of many passengers had fainted.
The kids have been utilizing the transport, which some officers referred to as a chair carry, to get to highschool in a mountainous space about 124 miles north of Islamabad, the company reported.
Rescue groups are attempting to unfold nets beneath the cable automobile, an official from the world, Jawad Hussain, instructed Pakistan’s Daybreak newspaper. He mentioned that locals organized and used the privately-owned cable automobile as a result of lack of roads and bridges within the space.
The Pakistani army mentioned particular forces have been additionally arriving on the web site to rescue these trapped.
بٹگرام اپڈیٹ :
بٹگرام میں ایک کیبل ٹوٹنے کی وجہ سے ایک چیئر لفٹ تقریباً 900 فٹ کی بلندی پر درمیان میں پھنس گئی۔ 8 افراد جن میں 6 بچے شامل ہیں پھنسے ہوئے ہیں۔ PDMA اور پاک فوج کے ساتھ تعاون کے بعد آرمی ہیلی کاپٹر کو ریسکیو آپریشن کے لیے روانہ کر دیا گیا ہے۔ pic.twitter.com/5trNeQGC7C— NDMA PAKISTAN (@ndmapk) August 22, 2023
Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar described the incident as “actually alarming.” He posted that he had ordered authorities “to urgently guarantee secure rescue and evacuation of the 8 folks caught within the chairlift,” including that he had ordered security inspections of all chair lifts.
Kakar was appointed caretaker prime minister after the nation’s parliament was dissolved earlier this month.
A 20-year-old who’s on the carry recognized solely as Gulfaraz instructed native outlet Geo Information that he and different passengers have been caught for greater than six hours. He mentioned {that a} 16-year-old passenger, who suffers from a coronary heart situation, was unconscious for hours. “We don’t even have ingesting water within the chairlift,” he mentioned.
The scholars are between 10 to 16 years previous, he mentioned.
“The primary cable broke down after the chairlift travelled a mile,” he mentioned, including that the passengers have been ready for assist since early morning and that there was a second cable that snapped.
A faculty instructor, Zafar Iqbal, instructed Geo Information that 150 youngsters within the space usually use the cable automobile to journey to highschool.
بٹگرام پاشتو آلاٸٕی چیئر لفٹ پھنس گیا
لفٹ کے سائیڈ کی رسی ٹوٹ گئ
لفٹ میں موجود سکول کے بچے چیخ و پکارے رہے ہیں
ڈیڑھ گھنٹے سے مدد کے منتظرPosted by Fida khan.05 on Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Bisset reported from London; Hussain from Islamabad.
