VAULX-EN-VELIN, France—Ten people including five children aged three to 15 were killed in a fire on Friday that engulfed a residential building in an impoverished 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. on the ground floor before spreading up the seven-story building, rescue authorities told local media.
The flames were later extinguished.
Footage on social media showed a huge, dark cloud billowing above the building earlier in the day. “I was woken up by the screams,” a neighbor, Mohamed, told Le Progres de Lyon daily. “We wanted to help people but the smoke was too thick.”…