13 April 2024 , 07:12
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One person has been killed when a cable car pod hit a pole and burst open in the Turkish city of Antalya during Eid.
Two children are among the seven people wounded in the crash at the Tunektepe cable car at 6pm tonight.
Passengers plummeted to the mountainside below just outside the Mediterranean city.
A 54-year-old Turkish man named locally as Memiş Gümüş has been identified as the victim of the carnage.
Footage from the scene, which Metro.co.uk has decided not to publish because of how graphic it is, shows multiple victims being treated by paramedics right on the grassy rocks.
A rescuer is holding a person’s severed arm, while his colleague is seen wrapping it.
In another video, the cable car is shown completely broken apart, while its doors, windows and floor have fallen off.
Five of the injured were ferried off the mountain by helicopter. They were shown being loaded onto helicopters in emergency stretchers.
Medical teams remain at the scene of the incident late into the night (Picture: AFAD)
People were shown being loaded into helicopters (Picture: Getty)
Meanwhile, rescue operations continued into the night to remove the other two wounded victims.
Some 184 other passengers remained trapped in 25 other cable cars dozens of feet above the ground.
Antalya mayor Muhittin Bocek said in a statement said engineers were trying to restart the system.
Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya said on X that more than 160 first responders from different parts of Turkey were involved in the rescue mission.