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Ten people, including five children, were killed in a fire that gutted an eight-storey apartment building in one of Lyon’s poorest suburbs, French authorities said.
A fire in the suburban town of Vaulx-en-Velin injured 14 people, four of them seriously, according to the Rhone Valley regional authority.
About 170 firefighters were mobilized after the fire broke out shortly after 3am. The fire has been extinguished.
Associated Press reporters at the scene saw multiple fire trucks and a security cordon set up around the area as residents and traumatized neighbors gathered in the parking lot across from the building.
Vaulx-en-Velin, a town of 43,000 inhabitants, is one of the poorest areas of the Rhône Valley.
Interior Minister Gerald Dalmanin called the deadly blaze “appalling” and said he would travel to the town, 290 miles southeast of Paris, in the next few hours.
Mr Dalmanin had traveled to Lyon on Friday to outline security plans for Sunday’s World Cup final between Argentina and France.
He will be accompanied by Housing Secretary Olivier Klein.
It is the worst fire in France since 2019, when an arson attack in an upscale Paris district killed 10 people and injured 32.
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