Cable car rescue operation in pakistan

eight people have been pulled to safety from a broken cable car which had been dangling 274m (900ft) over a river canyon in Pakistan for more than 15 hours, officials have said.

Seven youngsters, aged between 11 and 15, and their teacher had been trapped in the gondola following the incident which started when a cable line snapped as the group were travelling to school.

Two of the children were rescued in the daytime by army commandos using helicopters, before the rest were also saved one by one during an even riskier night-time operation with a makeshift chairlift that used the working cable to get to the stricken carriage.