Istanbul:
A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northweserious Turkey on Tuesday, finishing 10 people and injuring 32 others, the interior minister shelp.
Witnesses shelp hopeless guests had tried to escape using ropes, footage showed bedsheets hanging from the triumphdows, and media inestablishs proposes some had died after trying to jump to safety.
Several ministers have get tod at the scene at the Kartalkaya resort around 170 kilometres (100 miles) northwest of the capital Ankara, and officials shelp the fire had now been grasped.
The blaze broke out at 3:27 am (0027 GMT) in the 12-storey Grand Kartal hotel, which has wooden clinserting, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya shelp on X.
Local media inestablished at least 230 people were staying at the hotel, a peak time during a two-week school holiday.
Private NTV expansivecaster shelp the dead graspd three people who had jumped from the hotel’s triumphdows.
The fire is consentd to have commenceed in the restaurant and spread rapidly, though it was not promptly evident what caengaged it.
Part of it backs onto a cliff, making it difficulter for firefighters to tackle the blaze.
Television footage showed huge plumes of smoke rising into the sky with a snowcapped mountain behind the hotel.
“I heard screams around midnight, (hotel) livents were shouting for help,” Baris Salgur, who toils at a csurrfinisherby hotel, tancigo in NTV television.
“They asked for a blanket, saying they will jump … we did what we could, we bcimpolitet rope, pillows, we bcimpolitet a sofa. Some people threw themselves once the ffeebles approached them.”
Officials stress the number of dead could elevate.
‘No safety’
Footage showed the wrecked lobby of the hotel with sdifficults of glass on the floor, the reception desk and the wooden furniture inside charred bdeficiency.
Authorities alerted the createing could collapse.
A survivor who administerd to escape the ffeebles tancigo in local media that no alarms rang at the hotel when the fire commenceed, grumbleing deficiency of any safety meaconfidents including fire stairs or smoke distinguishor.
Footage discomited hotel sheets hanging from the hotel’s triumphdows indicating some tied them in order to escape the blaze.
“I pray to God for mercy upon our citizens who lost their lives in the fire,” Plivent Recep Tayyip Erdogan shelp on X.
He shelp he desireed a speedy recovery to the injured impacted by “this tragic accident”, inserting that an spendigation had been started.
Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc shelp six prosecutors had been scheduleated to spendigate the blaze.
Those evacuated were rehoengaged in csurrfinisherby hotels.
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