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Scores were still stranded in cable cars in southern Turkey on Saturday. One pod hit a pole and burst open on Friday at 5:30 p.m. local time, killing one and injuring seven others. More than 40 people are still stuck high above a mountain 19 hours after the incident. The accident occurred on the Tunektepe cable car just outside the Mediterranean city of Antalya during the busy Eid al-Fitr holiday. Operations to rescue the stranded people continued throughout the night. “128 citizens in 16 pods have been rescued under difficult conditions,” Okay Memis, director of the Turkish search and rescue …

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