ISTANBUL (AP) — One person was killed and seven others were injured when a cable car pod hit a utility pole and exploded in southern Turkey on Friday, sending passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials and local media said. I told you. Many other people were left stranded late into the night after the entire cable car system shut down.
Two children were among the injured in the accident, which occurred on the Tunektepe cable car on the outskirts of the Mediterranean city of Antalya at around 6pm during a busy Eid al-Fitr holiday, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. It is said that
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Anadolu identified the dead as a 54-year-old Turkish man, and said six Turkish nationals and one Kyrgyz national were injured.
Three hours after the accident, Interior Minister Ali Elikaya said five of the injured were taken from the mountain by helicopter, while rescue efforts continued for the remaining two. More than 160 first responders took part in the rescue operation, including coast guard air crews and mountaineering teams from across Turkey, the minister said in a post on social media site X.
Rescue teams work with passengers on the cable car transport system outside Antalya, southern Turkey, Friday, April 12, 2024. One person was killed and seven others injured in a cable car accident in southern Turkey during the busy Eid al-Fitr holiday on Friday. reported local media. (IHA via AP)
Antalya Mayor Muhytin Bocek said in a statement that about 184 other passengers were in 25 other cable car pods tens of feet (tens of meters) above the ground as technicians tried to restart the system. said he was trapped. He said a helicopter with night vision imaging was on its way to the scene.
Search and rescue agency AFAD later announced that 49 people had been rescued from the suspended pod, leaving 135 people stranded near midnight, about six hours after the accident.
Images published in Turkish media showed a wrecked car swinging on a cable that came loose on a rocky slope as medical workers tended to the injured.
Families flocked to coastal resorts in Turkey on Friday, the last day of a three-day holiday marking the end of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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A cable car transports tourists from Konyaalti Beach to a restaurant and observation deck on the 618-meter (2,010-foot) peak of Tunektepe. It is operated by the Antalya Metropolitan Municipality.
The Antalya Chief Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation. An expert committee including mechanical engineers, electrical engineers, and health and safety experts was assigned to investigate the cause of the accident.
