Ten people have died and 32 were injured in a fire that broke out at a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort, in the Bolu district, northwestern Turkey. This was announced today by Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya, quoted by Turkish media.
The fire broke out at around 3:30 a.m. local time (2:30 a.m. Bulgarian time) in the restaurant area of the 12-story wooden hotel in Kartalkaya. Due to the fact that the hotel is wooden, the flames quickly spread throughout the building.
The evacuated vacationers from the burning building were accommodated in four other hotels.
The hotel in the Bolu district (bordering Ankara district) was about 80-90 percent occupied due to the winter vacation of schoolchildren and students, and there were 237 vacationers, CNN-Turk television reported.
Many fire brigade teams from the Bolu and Gerede municipalities, police, gendarmerie, teams from the Disaster and Emergency Management Directorate (AFAD) and medics were sent to the area. A total of 267 people are involved in the efforts to extinguish the flames, the Anadolu Agency noted.