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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
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Local residents gather near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district. AP
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Rizwan Ullah, a survivor of the incident, talks to members of the media. AP
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An empty cable car dangles hundreds of metres above the ground in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
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Gul Faraz, a survivor near the incident site. AP
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Three young people receive first aid after their rescue from a broken cable car in Pashto village in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
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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
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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
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Pakistani military and local rescue workers use ropes and harnesses to bring the last people from the cable car to safety. AP
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A Pakistani soldier carries a young person from the broken cable car to safety using a zipline. EPA
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The cable car had been stranded 274 metres above the ground in high winds across a ravine in Battagram district of Pakistan. EPA
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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
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Local residents gather near the incident site, in Pashto village, a mountainous area of Battagram district. AP
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Rizwan Ullah, a survivor of the incident, talks to members of the media. AP
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An empty cable car dangles hundreds of metres above the ground in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
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Gul Faraz, a survivor near the incident site. AP
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Three young people receive first aid after their rescue from a broken cable car in Pashto village in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. AP
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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
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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
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Pakistani military and local rescue workers use ropes and harnesses to bring the last people from the cable car to safety. AP
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A Pakistani soldier carries a young person from the broken cable car to safety using a zipline. EPA
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The cable car had been stranded 274 metres above the ground in high winds across a ravine in Battagram district of Pakistan. EPA
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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