TURKEY: Hotel fire final toll stands at 78
A fire at a ski resort in Turkey this week is now known to have killed 78 people, the justice ministry announced Thursday, saying all the victims had been identified. On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor’s office in Bolu, the capital of the province where the tragedy occurred, had given a figure of 79 deaths. Entire […]
A fire at a ski resort in Turkey this week is now known to have killed 78 people, the justice ministry announced Thursday, saying all the victims had been identified.
On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor’s office in Bolu, the capital of the province where the tragedy occurred, had given a figure of 79 deaths.
Entire families perished when the huge fire swept through the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya resort in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
Questions have multiplied about fire safety measures at the luxury 12-storey hotel amid growing suspicion that negligence contributed to the high death toll.
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Survivors and experts have said the hotel’s fire alarm system did not work.