10 dead, including 5 children, in France apartment fire

Ten people, including five children died after a nighttime fire ravaged an eight-story apartment building Friday in one of the city of Lyon’s poorest suburbs, French authorities said.
The cause of the blaze – the country’s deadliest in years – is under investigation, including to establish whether it had a criminal origin.
A further 14 people were injured in the tragedy in the small suburban town of Vaulx-en-Velin, four of them seriously, according to the prefecture for the Rhone region. Some 170 firefighters were mobilized after flames tore through the center of the modern apartment block shortly after 3 a.m. The fire has since been extinguished.
Witness reports carried on French media describe scenes of horror, including residents smashing windows to try to climb out of the building, and one mother throwing her child out of the window to be safely caught by a person on the ground.