Tariq Saeed Peshawar
Ringing the alarm bells yet another incident of cable lift getting stuck in midway this time on the Chitral river with few people on board was reported Tuesday. However, local rescuers managed to rescue all the three people on board the cable lift or Dolly after some efforts.
It may be recalled that Army commandoes and the local experts had effectively managed to rescue all the seven students and a teacher hung in the air at 800 feet high between the two mountain above the river after two ropes of their make shift cable lift had broken down in Allai Tehsil of Battagram District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa exactly a week back on August 22. They were rescued after 15 hours of nerve shattering operation drawing the attention both local and international media.
This had also raised questions about the safety of scores of such like cable lifts or Dolies operating across the province as the locals have no other means of transportation or crossing the rivers as the local administration since then has been carrying out inspections of the all such lifts or Dolies operating in far flung areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Ina fresh incident a cable lift or Doly got struck after one of its cables snapped in Chitral on Tuesday though a team of rescue officials rescued three people on board the lift.
“The cable car was dangling above the Chitral River in the Kuragh area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district”. Officials and local said adding that the cable car was dragged through another rope as all the three onboard were safely rescued. The disaster management team with the help of local experts carried out the rescue operation spanning over few hours.
