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I'm Jackie Leonard and in this edition uploaded on Saturday the 26th of August, the relief in Pakistan after six schoolboys and two adults were rescued from a cable car which was left dangling over a ravine when a cable snapped.

After being rescued, I feel like I've got a new life. When I return to school, I will take the longer route along the riverside but will never use the cable car.

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It was a daring rescue in Northern Pakistan that caught the attention of people around the world this week.

Six school pupils and two adults trapped in a cable car dangling 300 metres up after one of the cables snapped.

Once everyone had been brought to safety, we caught up with our Pakistan correspondent Carrie Davis to reflect on an extraordinary mission.

The first reaction everybody had was this enormous sense of relief.

And release really because everybody had been so tense and you can see the images of the six children and two adults who were on board the cable car.

And you can see quite literally how tense they have to be because they're hanging so precariously.

So the fact that they'd all managed to make it back down to earth.

I think amongst that as well, there seems to be a sense that quite a few of the school boys understandably were sort of stunned because all of this happened when they were just on their way to school.

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