Helicopters equipped with night vision were called in to rescue 184 people still stranded in the cable car system's cabins, Antalya mayor Muhittin Bocek said in a statement.
One person was killed and seven injured when a pylon supporting cable cars suddenly collapsed outside the Turkish resort city of Antalya, authorities said Friday.
Images in Turkish media showed the battered car swaying from dislodged cables on the side of the rocky mountain as medics tended the wounded. Five of the injured were ferried off the mountain by helicopter and efforts continued to remove the other two injured people, Yerlikaya said three hours after the accident.
Video shared on Twitter/X by Yerlikaya showed people being loaded onto helicopters in emergency stretchers as rescue operations continued into the night. The cable car carries tourists from Konyaalti beach to a restaurant and viewing platform at the summit of the 618-meter Tunektepe peak. It is run by Antalya Metropolitan Municipality.
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