Silkyara Tunnel , India — AFP After 17 days trapped inside a collapsed Himalayan road tunnel they were building, Indian workers described the horror of their ordeal, and the hopes and prayers that kept them strong. “We were really scared, every moment felt that death was standing nearby,” rescued worker Deepak Kumar told the ...
Thakot, Pakistan – AFP Military helicopters and zipline experts on Tuesday rescued eight people, including six school boys, trapped for hours in a cable car high above a remote Pakistan valley. The daring rescue began with a helicopter plucking two children to safety after almost 12 hours in the air as daylight faded, but the […]
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The Pakistani army airdropped food and water to the stranded students in a cable car dangling over a ravine in northwestern Pakistan as rescuers are struggling to rescue the trapped people. At least seven schoolchildren and an adult in northwestern Pakistan were stranded in the air at 8 a.m. local time […]
