{"id":57798,"date":"2023-08-24T03:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/pakistan-cable-car-survivors-describe-ordeal"},"modified":"2023-08-24T03:23:02","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T18:23:02","slug":"i-thought-i-was-dead-pakistan-cable-car-survivors-describe-16-hour-ordeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=57798","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I thought I was dead\u2019: Pakistan cable car survivors describe 16-hour ordeal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six children and two adults were rescued on Tuesday after being left hanging hundreds of metres in the air<\/p>\n<p>Attaullah, 16, was travelling to school on Tuesday to collect his exam results, using a cable car to cross the ravine from his village \u2013 as he had done many times before. But when a cable broke and left him, five other children and two adults hanging precariously in the air hundreds of metres above a steep gorge, he said he had no hope he would survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was hell scared and all the children started screaming. We started holding each other as it kept dangling. I thought I was dead now,\u201d he told the Guardian from the mountainous village of Allai.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/23\/pakistan-cable-car-survivors-describe-ordeal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six children and two adults were rescued on Tuesday after being left hanging hundreds of metres in the airAttaullah, 16, was travelling to school on Tuesday to collect his exam results, using a cable car to cross the ravine from his village \u2013 as he had&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pakistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57799,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798\/revisions\/57799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}