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Over 170 people evacuated following cable car accident in Türkiye

BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 13. The rescue
operation at the site of an accident on a cable car has completed
in Türkiye’s province of Antalya, the head of the Turkish Emergency
Management Agency (AFAD) Okay Memish, Trend reports.

He noted that 174 out of 184 persons had been evacuated from the
site of the ropeway mishap, which occurred due to the collapse of
one of the structure’s supports. The head of AFAD added that the
investigation into the causes of the accident is ongoing.

On Friday, a passenger cabin on the Tunektepe Teleferik cable
car in Antalya, Türkiye, collided with a pole and plummeted,
landing on steep ground.

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