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 fire at a ski resort hotel in Turkey has killed at least 76 people and injured 51, Turkey’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. “We are in deep pain." Yerlikaya told reporters after inspecting the site.

Allegations of negligence as 79 people died in blaze at Grand Kartal Hotel on a mountaintop in the Kartalkaya resort

Dozens of people were killed after a fire ripped through a ski resort hotel in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, forcing desperate holidaymakers to leap from windows to escape from the flames and smoke.

Turkey has detained nine people as part of an investigation into a fire that killed 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the Bolu mountains, authorities said.

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

Tuesday's fire at the Grand Kartal Hotel in Kartalkaya left at least 79 people dead and 51 injured, happening during a particularly busy season.

Guests said no fire alarms could be heard and there was no sign of firefighters for a long period The fire that killed 78 people at the Grand Kartal Hotel in the early hours of Monday is one of the deadliest disasters of its kind in Turkish history.