{"id":117870,"date":"2023-08-22T09:20:33","date_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/?p=117870"},"modified":"2023-08-22T09:20:33","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T09:20:33","slug":"eight-people-trapped-in-horror-cable-car-incident-including-six-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uklevitrasupport.com\/world-news\/eight-people-trapped-in-horror-cable-car-incident-including-six-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight people trapped in horror cable car incident including six children"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A family is terrifyingly trapped inside a cable car dangling 900ft above the ground. <\/p>\n

    Six children are among the eight in desperate need of helicopter rescue after the cable holding up their vehicle suddenly snapped with them all onboard. <\/p>\n

    The kids were on their way to school over a valley in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan when disaster struck on Tuesday morning. <\/p>\n

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    Military helicopters have been dispatched to rescue the group however it is unknown whether they are now safe and no longer at risk of plummeting into the valley's bed.<\/p>\n

    It took four hours of holding on perilously in the middle of the air for the eight passengers before help arrived in the shape of a military rescue chopper.<\/p>\n

    According to Pakistan's Dawn.com, the incident happened at around 7am local time (02:00 GMT) this morning.<\/p>\n

    The unusual mode of transport is used by around 150 people to get to school, with the area seriously lacking in alternative routes, a teacher told Dawn.com.<\/p>\n

    Gulfraz is one of the trapped passengers and was able to beg TV channel Geo News over the phone for help with a panicked SOS call.<\/p>\n

    "For God's sake help us," Gulfraz pleaded. <\/p>\n

    Without a helicopter swooping in and presumably letting down a form of ladder or pulley system to drag the six kids and two adults out of the car, it would be a tall order attempting to reach them, a rescuer commented.<\/p>\n

    Zulfiqar Khan, an official with Pakistan's 1122 rescue service, told AFP: "The cable car is stuck in a place where it is almost impossible to help without a helicopter,"<\/p>\n

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