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 fire at a ski resort in Turkey this week is now known to have killed 78 people, the justice ministry announced Thursday, saying all the victims had been identified. On Wednesday evening, the prosecutor's office in Bolu,

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.