One man has died, 17 people have been injured and 171 others remain trapped in a cable car accident in the Turkish city of Antalya, in the southwest of the country; after one of the poles holding the wiring broke and hit a cabin. With the impact, The ground opened and eight people fell into the void.among them the wife and children of the deceased man.

After the accident, the other cabins remained suspended in the air waiting for the rescue services. More than 600 people, four helicopters from the Coast Guard Command and three others from the Gendarmerie General Command have been working tirelessly since this Friday to evacuate more than a hundred people. As reported by the Minister of the Interior of Turkey, Ali Yerlikaya, at noon this Saturday the rescue forces They have already managed to remove 137 people of 19 of the 24 cable cars affected.

The mayor of the city assures that all maintenance work on the cable car had been carried out. For his part, the minister has promised open an investigation to clarify the causes of the collapse of the pole.