Local residents gather near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district. AP
Rizwan Ullah, a survivor of the incident, talks to members of the media. AP
An empty cable car dangles hundreds of metres above the ground in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
Gul Faraz, a survivor near the incident site. AP
Three young people receive first aid after their rescue from a broken cable car in Pashto village in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
Local police said they had conducted monthly safety checks on the cable car. Pakistan's caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar has ordered inspections of all privately-operated cable lifts. AFP
Pakistani soldiers work to rescue eight people, including six children, stranded in a cable car in the country's north-western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. EPA
Pakistani military and local rescue workers use ropes and harnesses to bring the last people from the cable car to safety. AP
A Pakistani soldier carries a young person from the broken cable car to safety using a zipline. EPA
The cable car had been stranded 274 metres above the ground in high winds across a ravine in Battagram district of Pakistan. EPA
Six children aged between 10 and 16 years, along with two adults, were trapped for hours in the cable car. All eight were brought to safety. AP
