Fire At Ski Resort Hotel Results In Over 60 Deaths

At least 66 people passed away after a fire engulfed a hotel at a Turkish ski resort.

51 others sustained injuries.

“We are in deep pain,” Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya told reporters, according to ABC News.

“We have unfortunately lost 66 lives in the fire that broke out at this hotel,” Yerlikaya added.

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ABC News reports:

The fire ignited after 3 a.m. on Tuesday at the Grand Kartal, a hotel at the resort in Northwestern Turkey.

A city official told ABC News that after the fire broke out in the middle of the night, around 3:27 a.m. local time, most of the victims, including children, appeared to have lost life due to suffocation.

There were 238 registered guests in the hotel at the time of the fire, according to the interior minister.

The fire department had not reported a negative situation regarding the fire adequacy of the hotel until Tuesday, Yerlikaya said, adding that an investigation is ongoing.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said an administrative and criminal investigation is underway.

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A fire at Kartalkaya ski resort, Turkey, killed 66, injured 50; guests used bed sheets to escape engulfed upper floors https://t.co/koynaHIHAv pic.twitter.com/HYk9ibHvBk

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A fire at the 12-story Grand Kartal hotel in Turkey’s Kartalkaya ski resort killed at least 66 people Tuesday, with 51 others injured, according to Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya. The resort is in Bolu province’s Koroglu mountains, 300 kilometers east of Istanbul.… pic.twitter.com/sxpaHMUoKw

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Per BBC:

The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there.

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An initial toll of 10 dead was raised significantly in the hours after the fire by Turkey’s interior ministry. At least two people died after trying to jump to safety.

It took 12 hours for the fire to be put out. Four people have been arrested, including the owner, the justice minister says.

The identities of all 66 are yet to be confirmed, but among those released so far are Vedia Nil Apak, a 10-year-old swimmer with Fenerbahce Sports Club in Istanbul, and her mother Ferda.

The club said it had learned of the news with “deep sorrow” in an Instagram on post on Tuesday.

Among the children who died were Alican Boduroğlu and his younger sister Elif Nas, who were at school in Istanbul, and their mother Ebru.

Eslem Uyanik, a young chef at the hotel, died along with Ceren Yaman Dogan, the daughter of a well-known local businessman and her 17-year-old daughter Lalin.

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