Battagram chairlift rescue operation live updates: Pakistan Army's SSG on site to save lives A team of Pakistan Army’s Special Services Group (SSG) has kicked off a rescue operation to save eight people, including six schoolchildren, who were left stranded mid-air after the cable of a chairlift broke in Allai Tehsil in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Battagram district on Tuesday. Helicopters of Pakistan Army Aviation and Pakistan Air Force are participating in the rescue operation along with the SSG troops. The open chair lift became stranded halfway across a ravine and was hanging by a single cable after the other snapped, Shariq Riaz Khattak a rescue official at the site told Reuters. The rescue mission is complicated due to gusty winds in the area and the fact the helicopter's rotor blades risk further destabilising the lift, he said. One chopper has already conducted surveillance and then returned, and another one would be sent shortly, he added. According to Geo News, the cha...