Police and the emergency services were alerted just before 2am on Monday night to a parking lot in Ronneby, where several cars were on fire and additional vehicles were threatened by the flames.

- There were six passenger cars that burned, of which five are severely threatened. But no one has been injured, said Kent Hoff, internal commander at the rescue service in eastern Blekinge.

According to the emergency services, the fire is now extinguished.