One person was killed and seven others were injured in Turkey’s southern Antalya province yesterday after a cable car car crashed into a broken pillar, the local governor’s office and a television station said.
On the X social network, the governor’s office announced that the injured were transferred to nearby hospitals for treatment and that 24 cabins of the cable car were hanging in the air.
Emergency rescue units evacuated 40 people from seven cable car cabins, and efforts to evacuate another 134 people stuck in other cabins are continuing, the governor’s office said.
Helicopters and other vehicles were sent to the scene to evacuate the cable car line.
According to information on the website, the cable car has 36 cabins with a capacity of six people each, and the ascent to the Tunektepe facility with a panoramic view of the city of Antalya takes an average of nine minutes, N1 writes.
