Family and friends bid a tearful farewell to Ferda Apak and her daughter, Vedia Nil Apak, at an emotional funeral held Thursday in Istanbul. Both lost their lives in the tragic fire that swept through a hotel in the Kartalkaya ski resort in the northwest of the country on1.

Witnesses say guests at a ski resort hotel in Turkey tried to escape a deadly fire with ropes and sheets hung from windows.

Officials in Turkey say that a fire has raged through a 12-story hotel at a popular ski resort in the northwestern part of the country during a school holiday, killing at least 76 people.