The fire is  suspected to have started in the hotel's  dining area.

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A fire has engulfed a hotel in the Turkish ski resort of Bolu, killing 66 people and injuring at least 51  others, authorities said.
The fire broke out at the 12-storey Grand Kartal Hotel at 03:27 local time (00:27 GMT) during a busy holiday period when 234 people were staying there,  it added.
An initial  death toll of 10 was  sharply raised in the hours after the fire by  the Turkish Interior Ministry. At least two people died after jumping from  hotel windows,  according to Turkish  media.
Images circulating in Turkey  show clothes hanging from  windows, used by those trying to escape the burning  building. Bolu Governor Abdulaziz Aydin said initial reports suggested the fire  started in the  hotel's fourth-floor restaurant  area and spread to  upper floors.
The hotel was investigating whether  any guests  were trapped in their rooms  after the fire  spread.
The governor told reporters  that the distance between the hotel, in Kartalkaya, and the  center of Bolu,  combined with freezing weather conditions, meant it took  firefighters more than an hour to  arrive.
Rescue efforts continued  throughout the  morning and the  Interior Ministry said emergency services had deployed 267 people to respond to the  blaze.
By mid-morning, the local mayor said they were still trying to reach parts of the  hotel. 
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Deadly fire at  hotel in Turkish ski  resort
The Bolu mountains are popular with skiers from Istanbul and the capital  Ankara, and the hotel was operating at  a high occupancy  rate at the start of  the two-week school  holidays.
The northwestern city is about  170 km (105 miles) from  Ankara.
Although the fire was  isolated to one hotel, the governor told Turkish media that a  nearby hotel  had been evacuated as a precaution.

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