New video shows cable car rescue in Pakistan
After 15 hours, all 8 people are safe, back on the ground, after a cable car line snapped, leaving 6 children and 2 adults dangling hundreds of feet above a canyon in Pakistan
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After 15 hours, all 8 people are safe, back on the ground, after a cable car line snapped, leaving 6 children and 2 adults dangling hundreds of feet above a canyon in Pakistan
"We suddenly felt a jolt," said 15-year-old Osama. "It all happened so suddenly that we thought all of us are going to die."
Army commandos dangling from helicopters plucked two children from a broken cable car suspended hundreds of feet above a canyon Tuesday in a remote part of Pakistan, the military said. Four more children and two adults still awaited rescue as night fell.
The six children and two adults became trapped earlier in the day when one of the cables snapped while the passengers were crossing a river canyon.
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