Fire at ski resort in Turkey leaves 10 dead, 32 hurt
ANKARA, January 21, 2025 (Saudi Arabia Breaking News) – A fire at a ski resort hotel overnight killed at least 10 people and injured 32 others in northwestern Turkey, authorities said on Tuesday, as TV footage shows crews fighting flames and smoke that engulfed the 11-story building.
The blaze began on the restaurant floor of the hotel at Bolu’s Kartalkaya ski resort at around 3:30 a.m. (0030GMT), Bolou Governor Abdulaziz Aydin told state broadcaster TRT.
He said there were 234 guests at the Grand Kartal Hotel, which has a broad wooden exterior.
The fire comes at the beginning of a nationwide two – week school holiday, a time when skiers from nearby Istanbul and Ankara usually head to the Bolu mountains.
TV footage showed several fire engines surrounding the charred hotel at the base of the ski slopes, with white bed sheets tied together and dangling from one upper-floor window.