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All eight people have been rescued from a cable car dangling above a ravine in northern Pakistan. Soldiers and locals spent several hours trying to extract the six children and two adults. They'd been on their way to school when cables snapped. Altaf Hussein is a teacher who was at the scene. He told Julian Marshall about the crowds who had gathered to watch the rescue operation.

(Picture: An army soldier slings down from a helicopter during a rescue mission to recover students stuck in a chairlift in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan. Credit: AFP)