MOSCOW (Sputnik) — According to the Aftonbladet newspaper, emergency services were extinguishing the fire early on Tuesday, but it flared up again around 12:00 p.m. local time (10:00 GMT).
"We fully refrain from any speculation about the motive of this crime," Bo Andersson, the local police chief, said, as quoted by the newspaper.
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The mosque in #Orebro, #Sweden, caught fire in two o'clock after midnight. pic.twitter.com/um5aBn6iNJ
The detainee was reportedly known to the police.
According to other media reports, nobody was injured in the fire, but the mosque itself was completely destroyed.
In May, Sweden's largest Shiite Imam Ali mosque, located in northern Stockholm, was also set on fire.
