Video footage has emerged showing the rescue of a passenger stranded in the cable car carriage that burst open in Turkey on Friday.
One person died and seven others were injured after the carriage hit a post, sending passengers plummeting to the mountainside below in Turkey’s Antalya Konyaalti district.
The clip, released by the defence ministry, shows the carriage suspended above the mountain before a rescue worker emerges with the passenger strapped to him.
They are then hauled upwards by a rope before they step onto a helicopter.
Pic: AP/IHA
A crane reaches to rescue stranded cable car passengers. Pic: AP/IHA
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.
The coastguard helicopter took off from Aydin at 8pm local time on Friday to rescue those hardest to get to, according to Interior minister Ali Yerlikaya.
After the mechanism was brought to a standstill, 174 other passengers were stranded in 25 cabins and also had to be rescued.
The helicopter deployed to rescue the stranded. Pic: IHA
Emergency workers assist one of the people rescued from the cable car. Pic: AP/IHA
Mr 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 rescue mission was completed by Saturday afternoon, he added.
