10 dead, including 5 children, in France apartment fire

VAULX-EN-VELIN, France (AP) — French authorities say 10 people, including five children, have died after a nighttime fire ravaged an eight-story apartment building in one of the city of Lyon’s poorest suburbs. The cause of the blaze — the country’s deadliest in years — in 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.