Two boys are among four people who have died after a fire believed to have been started by an electric scooter tore through a 10-storey housing block in France.

The blaze in Reims, 80 miles north-east of Paris, was so fierce that dozens of firefighters took several hours to get it under control.

Around 29 people are believed to have been injured in the inferno.

A 13-year-old jumped to his death from the 4th-floor apartment where the fire started in the early hours of Friday.

A burned body found inside is believed to be that of his older brother, aged 15, said Reims public prosecutor François Schneider.