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French authorities were Tuesday investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the southeastern city of Lyon who had said on social media he was going to kill himself to draw attention to the protest crackdown in Iran. Mohammad Moradi, 38, was found in the Rhone river that…

French authorities are investigating as suicide the drowning of an Iranian man in the south-eastern city of Lyon who had posted on social media that he would kill himself to draw attention to Iran’s crackdown on protests.

Arsenal forward Vivianne Miedema is due to see a knee specialist and undergo scans after suffering a bad injury in the Women’s Champions League.

Families had complained about drug dealing in the area where a fire killed ten people, including five children in the early hours of Friday in a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin, near Lyon, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Friday.

Five children were among 10 people killed overnight when a fire broke out in an apartment building in a suburb of the eastern French city of Lyon, local authorities said on Friday. 19 other people were injured, some remain in critical condition.

The five children who perished in a fire that broke out at a little after 3am local time in Vaulx-en-Velin, a suburb of Lyon, were between the ages of three and 15 years old

French authorities say 10 people including five children died in a fire Friday in an apartment building outside the city of Lyon

Ten people, including five children from age 3 to 15 years, were killed after a fire broke out on Friday morning at a residential building in Vaulx-en-Velin near the French city of Lyon, said Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin, as he headed to the site.

Another four people were seriously injured in the fire, which started on the ground floor before spreading up the seven-storey building