Six children and two adults were on the broken cable car above a steep gorge in Pakistan for 16 hours.
who were plucked from a broken cable car that was dangling precariously hundreds of yards above a steep gorge was a miracle, a survivor said Wednesday.
Because helicopters could not fly after sunset, rescuers constructed a makeshift chairlift from a wooden bed frame and ropes and approached the cable car using the one cable that was still intact, local police chief Nazir Ahmed said. In the final stage of the risky operation, just before midnight Tuesday, rescuers and volunteers pulled a rope to lower the chairlift to the ground.
On Wednesday, police arrested Gul Zarin, the owner of the cable car, on charges of ignoring safety measures, local police said. On Wednesday, a popular independent media outlet, Pakistani Geo TV, broadcast interviews with two survivors, Rizwan Ullah and Gul Faraz, who said they had seen death so closely that they would not be able to forget this ordeal for years.
He said some of the children and the two adults had cellphones and started making calls. Worried parents tried to reassure the children.
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