Turkey hotel fire: questions mount over safety measures at resort after 76 die
Survivors say they did not hear any alarms when fire broke out, as harrowing accounts emerge of attempts to escape
Turkish authorities are facing mounting questions over safety measures at a hotel in a popular ski resort that was ravaged by a fire, leaving 79 people dead and injuring more than 50 others.
Survivors reported that they did not hear alarms when the fire began in the early hours of Tuesday morning in the Bolu mountains resort of Kartalkaya. Harrowing accounts have emerged of people navigating smoke-filled corridors in complete darkness and jumping out of windows.
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