through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for. strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of god is great . 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. if makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. at first, army helicopters could not rescue them, buffeted by winds, scared the downwash from the blades could make the situation worse. on the ground, frustration. local tv managed to speak to one man inside the cable car. rising panic before his phone died. translation: i don t know how to make a request but it s i a matter of human lives. as you can imagine, the authorities should rescue all of us as soon as possible.
caroline sent us an update of the situation earlier. this is an incredible story. the children on their way to school. a relatively normal commute. taking these cable cars means crossing ravines takes minutes rather than going by road that can take hours. they had gone from taking the normal route to school to becoming a global story that people were hoping they would get back to solid earth. we heard late last night that all those on board, the six children and two adults were rescued. watching the rescue through the day, it did not feel like that would be the result we would see. we saw early on it was difficult conditions, a rural area with strong winds. multiple attempts by an army helicopter trying to reach the children and adults stuck in the cable car.
whether they re safe to do so. and some people have also pointed out that for the cost of this rescue operation, which obviously involves a large amount of army helicopters, lots of different people on the ground, that actually that money could have been used instead on actually installing a cable car system that was far more stable, reliable and professional rather than something that had just been put together by a local mechanic. you ve seen some of the images of these cable cars. this is not something that you might see in, say, a ski resort in switzerland. instead, it really is something that s been sort of put together, welded together, some metal that was hanging from these two cables. so a lot of questions, i think now, now that all eight are now back and safe about what will happen in the future with these cable cars. will anything change? step mother, father and uncle flew out of the uk
trapping them hundreds of metres in the air. pakistan correspondent caroline davies reports. crowd: allahu akbar! through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for. strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of god is great . 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads take hours. at first, army helicopters could not rescue them, buffeted by winds, scared the downwash from the blades could make the situation worse. 0n the ground, frustration. local tv managed to speak to one man inside the cable car. rising panic before his phone died.
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