“Rescue Operation Underway for Stuck Cable Car with Schoolchildren in KP’s Battagram”
By Correspondent
Another team of the Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group (SSG) is on the way to the Allai tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Battagram where six schoolchildren are among eight people stuck in a cable car after two of its wires snapped early morning on Tuesday.
Assistant Commissioner Jawad Hussain confirmed the update to Dawn.com, adding that troops of the military’s rapid response force are also on the ground.
Latest television footage shows an SSG commando being lowered and positioned adjacent to the cable car.
Earlier, two helicopters belonging to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Air Force arrived at the site for a rescue operation. Two attempts were made to move towards the cable car. One of the helicopters has now moved away.
Meanwhile, a Dawn.com correspondent present at the site said the second backup helicopter that continued to hover above the cable car also left after a while. Later, he said, he could see a helicopter approaching the cable car with a “net”, but that too moved away.
