The alarm that there was a fire in an apartment in Helsingborg came at 1.37 pm on Sunday.
When the emergency services and police arrived, many people had gathered around the house.
- It was both the public and relatives, says Evelina Olsson, police spokesperson in the South region.
The external commander of the rescue service, Morgan Belletti Bengtsson, says that there was heavy smoke on the lower floor when they arrived.
- But we managed to gain control and extinguish the fire relatively quickly, he says.
People stood in the way
There were reports that people had prevented the emergency services from doing their work.
Evelina Olsson believes this was more due to the large crowd.
- We were forced to turn people away and block off the site to facilitate the rescue work, says Evelina Olsson.
When life-saving measures were performed on a person, people filmed people, the police inform.
This was done at close range, which made the effort more difficult.
"Anyone who acts in this way may be suspected of unlawful invasion of privacy," the police write on their website.
Two with life-threatening injuries
The fire is out and the emergency services have left.
A total of seven people first went to hospital, four of whom are children between the ages of three and ten.
A girl and a woman in their 40s are hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Another girl has suffered serious injuries.
Two boys, a woman in her 70s and a man in his 25s are admitted to Helsingborg's hospital with minor injuries.
During the afternoon, another six people sought care on their own, according to TT.
A total of thirteen people are now being cared for after the fire.
To be investigated
The police have classified the incident as gross negligence.
The affected apartment is cordoned off pending a crime scene investigation.