(ANSA-AFP) - LYON, DECEMBER 16 - A fire in a seven-story building in Vaulx-en-Velin, in the eastern suburbs of Lyon, caused the death of ten people, including five children.
Fourteen are injured, of which "four are in conditions of absolute emergency".
This was announced by the prefecture.
The flames, whose origins are currently unknown, broke out shortly after three in the morning from the ground floor and then spread to the upper floors.
Of the 170 firefighters mobilized to put out the fire, two of them were slightly injured during the operation, according to reports from the area prefecture.
(ANSA-AFP).