Around 00.35am, emergency services, police and ambulance were alerted to a villa fire in Uppsala municipality. It turned out to be burning on a porch and the fire had begun to spread to the house.

A 45-year-old man was burned and taken to hospital by ambulance.

The fire could be extinguished and there was limited damage to the house. Police suspect the fire should have been caused by a gas heater that should have caught fire.

The text is updated.