Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke.

The fire in Turkey’s Kartalkaya area started on the restaurant floor of the Grand Kartal Hotel, authorities said.

The fire, which broke out early on Tuesday, trapped many of the registered 238 guests inside, leaving 78 people dead and dozens of others injured.

Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 79 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Wednesday. A deputy mayor of the northwestern Bolu province,

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the number of suspects detained in connection with the deadly hotel fire at a ski resort has increased to 14

A large fire broke out in an industrial building in Istanbul on Friday, state media reported. The fire burned the top floor of a 1,000 square meter textile workshop in Sultanbeyli, a district of Istanbul,

Istanbul — The number of people killed in a fire at a Turkish ski hotel has risen to at least 76, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Tuesday evening. So far, 52 of the deceased have been identified, said Yerlikaya, who referred to them as "compatriots." Dozens more people were injured.

A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.

At least 76 people have been killed in a fire that engulfed a popular Turkish ski resort hotel, leaving some to jump out of windows. The fire broke out at the wooden-clad 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel in Bolu at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there.

Drone video shows a blaze that caused multiple deaths at a ski resort hotel in Turkey:::: Kartalkaya, TurkeyThe fire that broke out at Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya injured 32 people as video showed crews fighting flames and smoke that engulfed the 11-story building.

A fire raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early Tuesday during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people — at least two of them when they jumped from the building to escape the flames,

The tourism minister has blamed the Bolu Municipality for the fire that claimed 78 lives at the Kartalkaya ski resort, while the mayor argues that the ministry is responsible because the resort was designated a tourism center.