The car can be seen in the image shared by the agency dangling in the air. Rescue teams are trying to spread nets under the cable car, an official from the area, Jawad Hussain, told Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper.

He said that locals organized and used the privately-owned cable car due to the lack of roads and bridges in the area.

The children were using the transport, which some officials called a chair lift, to get to school in a mountainous area about 124 miles north of Islamabad, Reuters reported.

Pakistan’s caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar described the incident as “really alarming.” He posted that he had ordered authorities “to urgently ensure safe rescue and evacuation of the 8 people stuck in the chairlift,” adding that he had ordered safety inspections of all chair lifts.

Kakar was appointed caretaker prime minister after the country’s parliament was dissolved earlier this month.

A 20-year-old who is on the lift identified only as Gulfaraz told local outlet Geo News that he and other passengers have been stuck for more than six hours. He said that a 16-year-old passenger, who suffers from a heart condition, has been unconscious for the last three hours. “We don’t even have drinking water in the chairlift,” he said.

The students are between 10 to 16 years old, he said.

“The first cable broke down after the chairlift travelled a mile,” he said, adding that the passengers have been waiting for help since early morning and that there was a second cable that snapped.

A school teacher, Zafar Iqbal, told Geo News that 150 children in the area typically use the cable car to travel to school.