One person was killed and seven injured when a pylon supporting cable car s suddenly collapsed outside the Turkish resort city of Antalya , authorities said Friday. The deceased was identified as a 54-year-old Turkish man named locally as Memiş Gümüş, and said six Turkish citizens and one Kyrgyz national were injured. The eight people in the affected cabin fell into a rocky area after a connecting pole fell 'for an undetermined reason', local media reported.
Two children were among the injured in the accident at the Tunektepe cable car just outside the Mediterranean city of Antalya at about 6pm during the busy Eid al-Fitr holiday, the state-run Anadolu Agency said. Images in Turkish media showed the battered car swaying from dislodged cables on the side of the rocky mountain as medics tended the wounded. Helicopters equipped with night vision were called in to rescue 184 people left stranded in the cable car system's cabins after the horror unfolded, Antalya mayor Muhittin Böcek said in a statement. 'Our specialised teams are here. God willing, we will rescue them all in a short time,' Böcek said. The death and injuries happened when one of the cabins in the cable car system at Sarisu-Tunektepe plunged into a rocky area as the pylon collapsed, Turkey's Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya sai
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