Eight people including six children are stuck in a cable car in the Allai tehsil of Khyber Pakhtunkhwas Battagram since early morning . Two helicopters belonging to the Pakistan Army and the Pakistan Air Force arrived at the site for a rescue operation .
Latest television footage showed a rescuer suspended from a sling being lowered and positioned adjacent to the cable car at point . The National Disaster Management Authority NDMA estimated it to be ft. The cable car is dangling in the middle of a deep ravine surrounded by towering mountains and a rocky surface along with the Jhangri river beneath it .
Two attempts at rescue had been aborted and a third would be launched shortly . Local government official said the rescue mission was complicated due to gusty winds in the area and the fact the helicopters rotor blades risked further destabilising the lift .
The helicopter can not approach the chairlift closely as its downwash air pressure might snap the sole chain supporting it . If the helicopters fail to rescue the passengers Rescue teams will make efforts from the ground via a snorkel . The students were crying and they did not even have any food items with them even when asked if the students had any water from the area they refused to eat .
They did not have any water or water . The children said they were not even drinking water from an out of the area . They said they had no water or any food . They were not drinking water . They are crying and did not need any food from the water. The students said they would not be drinking .
The passengers were crying. They were refusing to have any of their own water. They said that they were crying . They had no food. They are standing here and they are crying.