Seven students, including six children, and their teacher were successfully rescued after getting stranded for 14 hours in a damaged cable car perilously hanging 900 feet over a ravine in Pakistan, with authorities using military helicopters and a zipline to return the group to the ground. The occupants were heading to a school on Tuesday morning in a remote part of Battagram when one of the cables snapped. At least two children were rescued by helicopter before gusty winds and the risk of destabilizing the car even further stymied the effort. The rest of the group were rescued as night fell, with authorities setting up floodlights and attaching a makeshift chairlift to the one remaining cable. While trapped in the car, Gulfaraz, a 20-year-old, had spoken to Pakistan television channel Geo News over the phone. He said the group had no food or water, that all the children were aged between 10 and 15 years old, and that one of them had fainted. “For God’s sake, help us,” he said.
