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One person dead after apartment fire in Gislaved

today at 08.59 Johanna Sundbeck

The police and emergency services were alerted to a fire in an apartment outside Gislaved at around 8.30pm on Friday.

A seriously injured person was found in the residence and has died as a result of the injuries, the police report on Saturday morning.

“Emergency services on site have announced that it is a fully developed fire and that smoke divers are needed,” the police wrote on their website on Friday.

The police must carry out a technical examination of the home.

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