A military rescue is under way for six children and two adults trapped in a cable car over a ravine in Pakistan’s north-west.
The group were on their way to school when one of the cables snapped, leaving it dangling 274m (900ft) above ground, officials said.
Pakistan’s acting PM has ordered rescuers to attend to the “alarming” incident in Battagram.
Helicopters have reached the car but rescue conditions are precarious.
The open chair-lift now “suspended by a single rope”, local rescue official Abdul Basit Khan told AFP news agency.
Military helicopters and commandos have made repeated attempts to rescue the eight people stranded in the cable car.
In addition to gusty winds, the operation complicated by worries that the helicopter’s rotor blades could further destabilise the chair-lift, Shariq Riaz Khattak, a rescue official at the site, told Reuters news agency.
Of the six children on board the cable car, six are between the ages of ten and 16 years old.