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The north on Tuesday night announced it would remain in a period of mourning until sunset on Wednesday following the deaths of 76 people in a fire in a hotel at the popular Turkish ski resort of Kartalkaya, in the Bolu province.
The fire broke out at the Grand Kartal hotel at around 3.30am local time (2.30am in Cyprus) on Tuesday, with eyewitnesses reporting that the wood-fronted building was “immediately