Hotel fire kills at least 20

People jumped from windows or screamed for rescue from flames as a pre-dawn fire roared through a Paris hotel used to house needy African families this morning, killing at least 20 people, half of them children.

More than 50 people were injured, 11 seriously, in the blaze that was thought to have started in a ground floor breakfast room of the one-star Paris Opera hotel, in the capital’s 9th district.