A court in Ankara has allowed an investigation into six civil servants in connection with a deadly fire at a hotel in northwestern Turkey earlier this year, Deutsche Welle Turkish edition reported.
The Ankara Regional Administrative Court ruled that an investigation could proceed into six employees of the Bolu Provincial Special Administration, whose alleged negligence in inspecting fire safety measures at the hotel may have contributed to the tragedy.
The fire, which erupted in the early morning hours of January 21 at the Grand Kartal Hotel, a 12-story ski resort in Kartalkaya popular with vacationers during Turkey’s midterm school holiday, claimed the lives of 78 people and injured 51 others. Among the victims were 36 minors.
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