Two children injured and one person dead in cable car carnage

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.

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