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,

Officials in Turkey say that a fire has raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in the northwestern part of the country during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.

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.”