Rescue workers finished evacuating dozens of passengers trapped for 23 hours mid air Saturday after a cable car accident in southern Türkiye that killed one person.
10 people were injured in the accident, which happened late Friday afternoon in the resort city of Antalya when a supporting pylon collapsed.
One cable car in the Sarisu-Tunektepe system plummeted into a rocky area, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said.
A total of 174 passengers, including children, were “successfully” rescued from at least 16 cable cars after a “very dangerous operation”, said Okay Memis, the head of Türkiye’s disaster and emergency management agency Afad.
“This accident occurred following the breakage of a mechanism at the top of a cable car pylon,” Memis added.
The remaining 43 passengers who were suspended in the air were finally freed Saturday afternoon.
Source: CNA
