Residents were evacuated after a fire in Kristianstad that broke out shortly after 2 a.m. on Thursday, according to the police.
Witnesses heard a loud explosion in a central part of the city. A fire then broke out in a hairdressing salon on the ground floor of an apartment building, which then spread upwards
No person shall be physically harmed.
According to Kristianstadsbladet, the police make the assessment that it was the explosion that caused the fire. The crime classification is aggravated arson.