Investigation on as Turkey hotel fire toll rises to 76

A fire raged through a 12-storey 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, officials said.

- Associated Press

ANKARA, TURKEY:

At least 51 people also were injured in the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, in Bolu province's Koroglu mountains, some 300 kilometers east of Istanbul, said Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya. The fire occurred near the start of a two-week winter break for schools, when hotels in the region are packed. "Our hearts are broken. We are in mourning," Yerlikaya told reporters outside the hotel. "But you should know that whoever is responsible for causing this pain will not escape justice."