Children among eight trapped in cable car hundreds of feet above Pakistan canyon

The cable car suspended over a ravine in Pakistan. Picture: Pakistan tourism

Pakistani emergency workers are trying to rescue six children and two men who became trapped in a chairlift after one of its cables snapped, leaving it dangling hundreds of feet above the ground.

The group, who were crossing a river canyon in Battagram district in north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, had already been stranded for hours before rescuers arrived in helicopters to try to free them.