A team of rescue officials rescued three people who got stuck in a chairlift after one of its cables snapped in Chitral on Tuesday, reminding the mountainous region of the dramatic Battagram rescue mission.

The cable car was dangling above the Chitral river in the Kuragh area of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa district.**

They that the cable car was dragged through another rope as all the three onboard were safely rescued. The disaster management team carried out the rescue operation.

The incident was reported days after seven schoolboys and an adult were stranded in a cable car suspended between two mountain villages of Jhangri Pashto and Battangi in Allai tehsil of Battagram district on August 22.

They were rescued after 15 hours as the Pakistan Army Aviation, the Pakistan Air Force, ground troops of the Pakistan Army, the district administration and local people explored various options to rescue them. The rescuers operated under a policy of zero error, according to officials.

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