This was the devastating moment a fire tore through a hotel at a Turkish ski resort, killing at least 76 people, as four individuals have been arrested in connection with the inferno.
The blaze ripped through the 12-storey Grand Kartal hotel in Kartalkaya, Bolu, 185 miles east of Istanbul. A total of 234 guests were staying at the hotel when the fire broke out in its restaurant early on Tuesday morning, at the beginning of a two-week school winter break.
At least two of the 76 people known to have died had jumped from the building to escape the fire, suffering fatal injuries. Footage shows the fire smouldering at the hotel as rescue services line up outside to tackle the flames.
From some windows, charred bed sheets hang from the upper floors where desperate guests were forced to escape. Reports in Turkish media stated that guests were shimmying down from the windows after tying sheets and blankets together.
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