16 die as fire rips through Paris hotel

People jumped from windows or screamed for rescue from flames as fire roared through a Paris hotel today, killing at least 16 people, including six children, officials said.

At least 55 people were injured, 13 seriously, in the fire earlier this morning, that was thought to have started in a first floor breakfast room of the one-star Paris Opera hotel, in the capital’s touristic 9th district, fire officials said.