Cars burn across Sweden as fire-starters roam free

Police and rescue services struggled on Monday night to cope as cars were torched in cities across Sweden.

In Husby, a suburb in northern Stockholm, emergency services were called at 2am to a parking garage. “There was a lot of smoke. Two cars were totally burned out. There were 47 cars in total in that part of the garage and most of them have sustained smoke damage,” said Sven-Erik Olsson at Stockholm Police.

Earlier, at midnight, rescue service were also called out to Jordbro, a south-eastern suburb of Stockholm. “Seven vehicles were on fire in the centre there,” said Olsson.

In Malmö, which has seen a rash of car burnings in recent days, police received reports of cars on fire in nine different places in the space of half an hour. In Södertälje, 40km south of Stockholm, a biogas car was set alight in the Fornhöjden district. In Borås in western Sweden, rescue services put out fires that had engulfed a motorbike and two mopeds.

Police made no arrests in any of the overnight cases.

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