At least 76 people killed in hotel fire at ski resort in Turkey

Firefighters and emergency teams at the scene (Francisco Seco/AP)

A fire raged through a 12-storey hotel at a popular ski resort in northwestern Turkey early on 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.

At least 51 people were injured in the fire at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, in Bolu province’s Koroglu mountains, some 185 miles east of Istanbul, said interior minister Ali Yerlikaya.