Turkey has detained 11 people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc said on Wednesday. A deputy mayor of the northwestern Bolu province,

Witnesses have described standing helplessly and paralyzed by the horror of people screaming for help or jumping out of windows as flames tore through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort.

A mayor is firing back at critics after a fire at a ski-resort killed 76 guests in Turkey's Bolu province. Bolu mayor Tanju Özcan wrote on X that the allegations of misconduct prior to the fire involving him were “lies and slander.”