10 killed as fire engulfs football training center in Rio de Janeiro

The players were reportedly still asleep when flames took over the building.

Fire swept through a training facility for Brazil's most popular football club Flamengo on Friday, killing at least 10 people, authorities said.
The pre-dawn blaze in Rio de Janeiro hit a building that housed youth-category players aged 14 to 17, firefighters said.
In addition to the deaths, three people were injured in the fire. The cause was not immediately known.
Globo TV broadcast aerial footage of the fire, which it said had been brought under control after it burned for two hours.
The fire broke out at 5am in the Vargem Grande district of Rio in a modern facility where the top-flight professional Flamengo squad also trains, the news website G1 said.
Among the dead were six players and four team staff, the channel Sportv said. The main team had been due to practice at the same facility later in the morning. 

BREAKING: Firefighters say 10 people have died in a fire at a training complex for Flamengo soccer team in Rio de Janeiro.
- The Associated Press (@AP) February 8, 2019