Turkey fire: 10 dead as blaze rips through Kartalkaya ski resort hotel

A fire broke retired astatine a hotel astatine a ski resort successful northwestern Turkey connected Tuesday, sidesplitting astatine slightest astatine slightest 10 radical and hospitalising 32 others, officials said.

The occurrence broke retired overnight astatine the hotel's edifice successful the edifice of Kartalkaya successful Bolu province, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said.

Two of the victims died aft jumping retired of the gathering successful a panic, Governor Abdulaziz Aydin told the state-run Anadolu Agency. Private NTV tv said immoderate radical tried to ascent down from their rooms utilizing sheets.

There were 234 guests staying astatine the hotel, Mr Aydin said.

Necmi Kepcetutan, a skis teacher astatine the hotel, said helium was dormant erstwhile the occurrence erupted and helium rushed retired of the building. He told NTV tv that helium past helped immoderate 20 guests retired of the hotel.

He said the edifice was engulfed successful smoke, making it hard for guests to find the occurrence escape.

"I cannot scope immoderate of my students. I anticipation they are OK," the skis teacher told the station.

Television images showed the extortion and apical floors of the edifice connected fire.

The origin of the occurrence was not instantly known. NTV tv suggested that the woody cladding connected the hotel's exterior whitethorn person accelerated the dispersed of the fire.

Kartalkaya is simply a fashionable skis edifice successful the Koroglu mountains, immoderate 186 miles eastbound of Istanbul. The occurrence occurred during the schoolhouse interruption erstwhile hotels successful the portion are packed.

Mr Aydin's bureau said 30 occurrence trucks and 28 ambulances were sent to the site.

Other hotels astatine the edifice were evacuated arsenic a precaution.