At least 10 people have died and 32 have been injured after fire broke out at a hotel at a ski resort in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, officials said.The fire broke out overnight at the restaurant of a hotel in the resort of Kartalkaya in Bolu province, interior minister Ali Yerlikaya said.
Two of the victims died after jumping out of the building in a panic, governor Abdulaziz Aydin told the state-run Anadolu Agency. There were 234 guests staying at the hotel, Mr Aydin said.
Television images showed the roof and top floors of the hotel on fire. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Mr Aydin’s office said 30 fire trucks and 28 ambulances were sent to the site.Kartalkaya is a popular ski resort in the Koroglu mountains, some 300 kilometres (186 miles) east of Istanbul.
The fire occurred during the school semester break, when hotels in the region are packed. Other hotels at the resort were evacuated as a precaution….