A fire in an apartment building in Paris has killed eight people, including two children.

The blaze broke out in the early hours of the morning and it took more than a hundred firefighters to bring it under control.

The cause of the fire in the building, located at the foot of the famed Montmartre hill isn't yet known., but police are treating it as suspicious.

It's believed to be the deadliest fire in the French capital in a decade.