US EditionTurkish Court Sentences Hotel Owner and 10 Others to Life for Deadly Fire that Killed 78
Eleven people received life sentences for negligence causing a fire that killed 78, including 34 children, and injured 133 at a Bolu ski resort hotel, court ruled.
- A Turkish court sentenced the owner of a ski resort hotel and 10 others to life in prison for negligence in connection with a deadly fire that killed 78 people, including 34 children, and injured 133 others in January.
- The court convicted the hotel owner, his wife, two daughters, hotel managers, a deputy mayor and a deputy fire chief of negligence with "probable intent to kill."
- Poor safety measures, including lack of smoke extraction, faulty alarms, inadequate staff training and missing sprinkler systems, allowed fumes to fill upper floors and prevented the safe evacuation of the hotel's 238 guests.
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After the fire in a ski hotel in Turkey with 78 dead, eleven defendants were sentenced to life imprisonment.
A court in Turkey has sentenced 11 people to life imprisonment for the burning of a hotel in a ski resort in the city of Bolu in January, in which 78 people were killed, including 34 children, while 137 were injured. Among those sentenced to life imprisonment are the owner of the hotel, the manager and several members of the board of directors, as well as the deputy mayor of Bolu and the head of Firemen in office for “probable premeditated murde…
A Turkish court has sentenced eleven people to life in prison for a hotel fire in the Kartalkaya ski resort in the northwest of the country. The January fire killed 78 people, including 34 children. Another 137 people were injured. One of the convicted is the hotel owner, Halit Ergul. His wife and two daughters also received life sentences, as did the hotel manager, a deputy mayor, and the local fire chief. According to experts, the Grand Kartal…
A devastating fire in a Turkish ski hotel cost many lives in January. Now a court has pronounced high penalties against those responsible. Critics, however, think that some got away.
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