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ISTANBUL (AP) — One personification was killed and 7 injured Friday erstwhile a cablegram car pod successful confederate Turkey deed a rod and burst open, sending nan passengers plummeting to nan mountainside below, officials and section media said. Scores of different group were near stranded precocious into nan nighttime aft nan full cablegram car strategy came to a standstill.
Two children were among nan injured successful nan mishap astatine nan Tunektepe cablegram car conscionable extracurricular nan Mediterranean metropolis of Antalya astatine astir 6 p.m. during nan engaged Eid holiday, nan state-run Anadolu Agency said.
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Anadolu identified nan deceased arsenic a 54-year-old Turkish man, and said six Turkish citizens and 1 Kyrgyz nationalist were injured.
Five of nan injured were ferried disconnected nan upland by chopper and efforts continued to region nan different 2 injured people, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said 3 hours aft nan accident. The rescue cognition progressive much than 160 first responders including aerial crews from nan Coast Guard and mountaineering teams from different parts of Turkey, nan curate posted connected societal media tract X.
A rescue squad useful pinch passengers of a cablegram car proscription strategy extracurricular Antalya, confederate Turkey, April, Friday 12, 2024. A cablegram car disaster successful confederate Turkey near 1 personification dormant and 7 injured complete nan engaged Eid nationalist vacation connected Friday, section media reported. (IHA via AP)
Some 184 different passengers were trapped successful 25 different cablegram car pods dozens of feet (tens of meters) supra nan crushed arsenic engineers tried to restart nan system, Antalya Mayor Muhittin Bocek said successful a statement. Helicopters pinch nighttime imagination imaging were heading to nan site, he said.
Search and rescue agency AFAD later said 49 group had been rescued from nan suspended pods, leaving 135 still stranded adjacent to midnight — astir six hours aft nan accident.
Images successful Turkish media showed nan battered car swaying from dislodged cables connected nan broadside of nan rocky upland arsenic medics tended nan wounded.
Friday was nan last time of a three-day nationalist vacation successful Turkey marking nan extremity of nan Muslim beatified period of Ramadan, which sees families flock to coastal resorts.
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The cablegram car carries visitors from Konyaalti formation to a edifice and viewing level astatine nan acme of nan 618-meter (2,010-feet) Tunektepe peak. It is tally by Antalya Metropolitan Municipality.
Antalya Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has launched an investigation. An master committee including mechanical and electrical engineers and wellness and information experts was assigned to find nan origin of nan incident.
