Apartment fire near Lyon, France kills 10, including 5 children

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Ten people, including five children, were killed in a fire on Friday that engulfed a residential building in a town near the southeastern French city of Lyon.

Another four people were seriously injured in the blaze in Vaulx-en-Velin, which started around 3 a.m. local time on the ground floor, before spreading up the seven-story building, according to rescue authorities. The flames were later extinguished.

Witnesses Furkan Bag quoted by local media said a woman had tossed her child down to a crowd, which had gathered outside and managed to catch him. She then jumped out of the window to escape the fire and smoke and fell to her death, according to the witness.

Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, who visited the site of the fire on Friday, said there was drug dealing — and squatting by drug dealers — in several spots along that street, including within the building hit by the fire. Police had arrested drug dealers in that building overnight, he said.

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