One person has died and seven others injured after a cable car collapsed in Turkey, authorities have said.
The incident happened in the country’s Antalya Konyaalti district when a pod hit a post, sending passengers plummeting to the mountainside below, officials said.
After the mechanism was brought to a standstill, 174 other passengers were stranded in 25 cabins and also had to be rescued.
Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya wrote on X: “May God have mercy on our citizen who lost his life, and I wish a speedy recovery to the injured.”
The Antalya metropolitan municipality fire brigade, national medical rescue team (UMKE), Bursa provincial mountaineers, and members of the police and coastguard were all part of the rescue effort.
A coastguard helicopter took off from Aydin at 8pm local time on Friday, according to Mr Yerlikaya, and the rescue mission was completed by Saturday afternoon.
