Turkey cable car collision: All 174 people stranded in cable cars above mountain rescued a day after fatal crash

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Footage taken in the aftermath of the accident shows the torn open wreckage of a pod and tangled debris on the rocky ground, as well as medics tending the wounded.

The last of 174 people stranded in cable cars above a Turkish mountain have been rescued - almost 23 hours after one of the pods hit a pole and burst open, killing one and injuring seven others. The accident, which sent people plummeting to the ground, happened at around 6pm local time on Friday on the Tunektepe cable car, just outside the popular tourist city of Antalya in the south of the country.

The governor's office named Memis Gumus, a Turkish national, as the man who died in the incident. The injured, including two children, were airlifted to hospital. It initially reported seven people had been injured in the collision, but the number was later revised to 10 by health minister Dr Fahrettin Koca. Mr Koca wrote on X: 'One person died and 10 people were injured as a result of a cable car cabin falling in Antalya's Konyaaltı district.

 

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