Battagram: Army helicopter reaches to rescue schoolchildren stranded mid-air

A Pakistan Army helicopter reached Battagram, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, to rescue schoolchildren and teachers, who are stranded midair after cable of a chairlift passing over a river broke in the Allai Jhangray Pashto area broke on Tuesday.

A rescue operation would be carried out in a “very careful and deliberate manner” after making make an aerial reconnaissance, said a statement from the government.

As per details, the chairlift is stuck in Battagram’s Tehsil Alai as a result eight schoolchildren and their teacher are stranded in midair for several hours.

Earlier, Commissioner Hazara Sultan Aamir said he has contacted the KP govt and Pakistan Army for helicopter support to rescue the stranded schoolchildren and teacher.

Earlier, four people were killed as a cable plunged into the Indus River near Sammar Nallah area in district Upper Kohistan.

The deceased were crossing the river from Shitial to Tangir area of Gilgit-Baltistan, when the string holding the chairlift broke into two pieces, plunging them into the fast-flowing river.