Fourteen people were arrested including eight referral to the prosecution on Friday to be charged in the criminal investigation into the fire of a mountain hotel, which killed 78 people in Turkey, according to the state agency Anadolu. The fire that broke out on Tuesday night in the Kartalkaya ski resort (center) revealed a negligence chain and the absence of a warning and security system.
The investigation focuses on hotel, rescue officials and the municipality of Bolu, the chief town on which the station depends. Friday, the owner of the luxury establishment Grand Kartal and his son -in -law were arrested, according to Anadolu. They notably joined the deputy mayor of Bolu, the deputy chef of the firefighters, the hotel’s cook, the establishment’s electrician and an architect, detail the Turkish media.
The survivors and experts who arrived at the scene of the drama denounced the absence of alarm system and smoke detector in working order, sprinklers, secure staircases and means of access for firefighters to a whole facade From the establishment of twelve floors, overhanging the ski slopes. According to the Minister of the Interior Ali Yerlikaya, 238 customers, mainly families with children, were in the hotel during the disaster, which occurred in the middle of the night and during the winter school holidays.
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