ISLAMABAD: Eight people, including six children, are trapped in a cable car dangling over a ravine in Pakistan. According to reports, rescue efforts are in progress. The incident took place when the people were using a chair lift to get to school in a mountainous area in Battagram, about 200 km (125 miles) north of Islamabad, officials said.

The chair left became stranded halfway across a ravine and was dangling by a single cable after the other snapped. Pakistan's National Disaster Management Authority said in a statement that a cable had broken in the lift service and two army helicopters had been dispatched for a rescue operation after attempts at fixing the fault had been unsuccessful.

The rescue mission is complicated due to gusty winds in the area and the fact the helicopters' rotor blades risk further destabilizing the lift. The military helicopters are both hovering near the stranded cable car.

The incident took place at around 7 am local time. People who live in the northern mountainous regions of Pakistan often use chair lifts for transport from one village to another.