Dozens rescued after cable car accident kills one person in Turkey
Al Jazeera
After an operation lasting almost 24 hours, 184 people stranded in midair since Friday afternoon have been rescued.
One person has been killed and 17 others injured in the southern Turkish province of Antalya after a cable car cabin collided with a broken pole, according to the country’s health and justice ministers.
The injured people “were transferred to hospitals and their treatment continues”, Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said on the social media platform X on Saturday.
People who were rescued and stated that they did not need hospital transportation had the health checks performed in ambulances, he added.
The accident happened late on Friday afternoon. One cable car in the Sarisu-Tunektepe system plummeted into a rocky area, Koca said.
After about 24 hours of rescue efforts, 184 people stranded in midair since the accident had been rescued, Turkey’s state-run Anadolu Agency said.
