2023 Battagram cable car incident

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On 22 August 2023, in the Allai valley near the city of Battagram in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, a cable car used by local residents for daily commuting to school became the centre of a rescue operation after one of its cables snapped, leaving six children and two adults stranded approximately 274 meters (900 feet) above the ground. All individuals were later rescued that day.