FIVE children between the ages of two and 10 died when a fire ravaged their home in northern France while staying with their divorced father, who was seriously burned trying to save them.
In Saint-Quentin, a town about 130km northeast of Paris, a father who had his children for the weekend jumped out of a first-floor window to get help as flames engulfed his house.
The father, in his 40s, attempted to go back into the house with a neighbour, but the two were helpless in the face of the massive flames.
"He never thought of himself. He tried to go get help. He burned himself trying to save his son," said the neighbour, Olivier Hubeaux.
Masses of smoke "seriously complicated the work of the firefighters", who found the five bodies of the children, "dead from asphyxiation", said town official Jean-Jacques Boyer.
Autopsies will be carried out on the children on Monday.
Investigators are following the assumption the fire was accidental, but its exact origin has not been confirmed.
The father was in hospital with serious burns and was told only on Sunday morning by a psychologist that his children had died.
The children's mother arrived on Sunday and was in the care of doctors after receiving the news.
Another deadly fire that killed three people broke out on Saturday evening in a rundown seven-storey building housing squatters in the Paris suburb of Aubervilliers.
One person died after jumping out the window, another burnt to death on the third floor and a third died in hospital, while at least 13 people were injured.
A resident told journalists the blaze erupted when someone threw a petrol bomb during a brawl between occupants, but investigators could not immediately confirm that.
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