Fire in Türkiye –
Four people, including the hotel owner, were arrested
A large fire broke out in a hotel in a ski resort during the night from Monday to Tuesday, killing 76 people and injuring dozens.
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Seventy-six people were killed and 51 injured in a hotel fire that occurred in the middle of the night on Tuesday in a ski resort in central Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya announced. Four people, including the hotel owner, were arrested after a fire at a ski resort.
“The death toll in the hotel fire has risen to sixty-six. 51 people were injured, including one seriously,” said the minister who visited the site, confirming that the fire “was extinguished”.
-“Today at 3:27 a.m. (1:27 a.m. Swiss time), a fire was reported at a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski center. […] Unfortunately, the number of deaths increased to ten and the number of injured to 32,” the minister announced on X earlier in the morning.
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Two hundred and sixty-seven firefighters and rescuers were still working Tuesday morning to bring the fire under control, the minister said.
The fire, which broke out on the upper floors of the hotel for a still unknown reason, quickly spread due to the wooden cladding of the building, Turkish media reported.
Hotel employees helped evacuate guests of whom 237 were staying at the time of the fire, according to private Turkish channel NTV.
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