TEN DEAD, INCLUDING 5 CHILDREN, IN FRENCH BLAZE

BY CATHY NICOLE CARR

The blaze broke out at a seven-storey residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin in the early hours of Friday and witnesses saw one of the residents throwing her child from the building to people below before jumping to her death.

Ten people, including five children aged between three and 15 years old, have been killed, interior minister Gerald Darmanin said.

Another 14 people were injured, four of them seriously, in the blaze that broke out at a seven-storey residential block in Vaulx-en-Velin, a town around 290 miles southeast of Paris, just after 3am on Friday.

There were 170 fire fighters at the scene.

The cause of the fire is not yet known.

"There are several scenarios and a probe will be opened,"

Mr Darmanin said, adding he was in touch with President Emmanuel Macron over the tragedy.

He added:

"I send my condolences to the families and loved ones of the victims."