 Authorities were reportedly alerted after the adults inside the car used their phones to contact relatives. A handful of the boys were rescued one-by-one over the course of several hours by military commandos in helicopters. After sunset, however, helicopters could no longer safely fly at the scene, so the rescuers used a makeshift chairlift to slide along the cable and grab the remaining occupants before carrying them back. One of the boys, a 12-year-old with a heart condition named Abrar Ahmed, said the stress of the situation had caused him to faint for an hour. The boys were treated with oxygen after the daring rescue (Picture: AP) Abrar Ahmed, left, had to endure the terror with a heart condition (Picture: AP) He told The Times: 'We held each other's hands and firmly grasped the pipes of the cable car. After one hour, due to anxiety and fear, I fe){kind=link}
NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
New footage reveals the tense lead-up to a daring rescue of eight people from a broken-down cable car in Pakistan.
Six schoolboys and two men were forced to cling onto the inside of the car for 16 hours after all but one of its supporting cables snapped, leaving it dangling askew some 1,200 feet above a ravine in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province on Tuesday.
Their terrified faces are shown in video shot by a drone sent up to inspect the scene during their rescue.
Three of them appeared to be forced to stand, with nothing to stop them falling out of the car’s open side except each other and their grip on the car’s interior.