One person has died and seven others injured after a cable car collapsed in Turkey, authorities have said.
The incident happened in the country’s Antalya Konyaalti district when a pod hit a post, sending passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials said.
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A crane reaches to rescue stranded cable car passengers. Pic: AP/IHA
After the mechanism was brought to a standstill, 174 other passengers were stranded in 25 cabins and also had to be rescued.
Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X: “May God have mercy on our citizen who lost his life, and I wish a speedy recovery to the injured.”
The helicopter deployed to rescue the stranded. Pic: IHA
Emergency workers assist one of the people rescued from the cable car. Pic: AP/IHA
The Antalya metropolitan municipality fire brigade, national medical rescue team (UMKE), Bursa provincial mountaineers, and members of the police and coastguard were all part of the rescue effort.
A coastguard helicopter took off from Aydin at 8pm local time on Friday, according to Mr Yerlikaya, and the rescue mission was completed by Saturday afternoon.
