Members of the public tried to help the tragic pair at the Liverpool scene but they did not survive.

Merseyside Police, who have launched a probe into the tragedy, were called to Queens Drive in Mossley Hill after reports two people were trapped in the vehicle.

Police rushed to the scene at around 10am this morning to reports that five people were trapped in a lift at a construction site in Mandeville Road, Northolt, west London.

Attaulla Shah, who was one of six children and two adults trapped in the cable car above a river canyon in the Battagram district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, revealed: ‘I thought it was my last day’.

The children were using the cable car to cross the valley to get to school but were trapped 1,200ft above the ground in a mountainous area in Battagram, about 120 miles north of Islamabad.

The two survivors of a Western Australian boating tragedy are ‘heartbroken’ after they floated for two hours stranded in freezing water alongside their friend who died before help could arrive.

Footage filmed from the airport showed some of the dissatisfaction felt by the flight’s hundreds or so stranded passengers – who were forced to forced to wait hours overnight as they awaited an update.

Two firefighters have died after battling flames while working on a cargo ship in Port Newark in New Jersey.