Survivors say they did not hear any alarms when fire broke out, as harrowing accounts emerge of attempts to escape
Officials and witnesses have said rescue efforts were hampered by the fact part of the 161-room hotel is on the side of a cliff.Officials and witnesses have said rescue efforts were hampered by the fact part of the 161-room hotel is on the side of a cliff.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.
“We are in deep pain,” Turkey’s interior minister, Ali Yerlikaya, told reporters after inspecting the site at the Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, about 190 miles east of Istanbul. “But you should know that whoever is responsible for causing this pain will not escape justice.” Necmi Kepçetutan, a ski instructor employed at the hotel, told the NTV network that “people were screaming to be rescued”. An employee at a nearby hotel described seeing a child dangling from a window screaming for help. “I was profoundly disturbed. I still cannot forget the image,” he said.
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