Pakistan cable car rescue ongoing update all rescued

Stuff like that is what (my) nightmares are made of. I will be hoping for the best...

Looks like two children have been rescued so far. Hopefully the rest will follow.

The down draught of the helicopter is making the cable car swing 🤢 I would rather be unconscious personally.

Sky and BBC still only saying 2.

Operation by air has stopped for the night, still working on a rescue from the round I believe.

I would be unconscious of terror.
I hope they can rescue everyone.

My husband was telling me about this earlier but I couldn't look at the pictures, absolutely terrifying. Those poor children.

That is an amazing outcome!

Did anyone else look into these cable cars further? Yikes. I saw this on the BBC site along with an image of one of them. I have no idea what the case is with this particular cable car.

"Pakistan's homemade cable car system
Makeshift cable cars are widely used in eastern Mansehra and Pakistan-administered Kashmir, and stretch all the way up to Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan in the north.

With little infrastructure in the area and long-distances between facilities like schools, the cable cars - often thrown together with scrap metal - are born from necessity.

They are built by local communities - mostly illegally, because it is cheaper and there is no alternative infrastructure.

Sometimes they are made of the upper body of a pick-up truck. For example, a Suzuki may be converted into a large cabin used to transport people and cattle. They are then attached to the cable - which can also be made from scrap iron - using ropes.

Though dangerous, people often use them to cross rivers and to shorten the distance needed to travel between valleys in the mountains."