“All the kids have been successfully and safely rescued,” caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar said in a post on messaging platform X,formerly known as Twitter.
“Great team work by the military,rescue departments,district administration as well as the local people.”
A military helicopter rescue operation was called off as night fell after two children had been pulled to safety. Floodlights were installed and a ground-based rescue continued.
A security source said that cable crossing experts had been trying to rescue the children one by one by transferring them on to a small platform along the cable.
Before the helicopter rescue was called off,TV footage showed one child being lifted off the cable car in a harness,swinging side to side,before being lowered to the ground.
‘Extremely difficult’