A child with life-threatening injuries after a garage fire in Fristad

The children, who are aged 13-14, had gathered in a garage to tinker when a fire broke out at around 7pm on Friday.

- We don't know the root cause, but the children got flammable liquid on them, says Johan Lindström, officer on duty at Södra Älvsborg's rescue service association.

According to the police, a small amount of gasoline had leaked and ignited. A preliminary investigation into public dangerous negligence has been launched, but there are no suspects. Interrogations should, if possible, be held on Saturday.

Seven children suffered serious injuries in connection with the fire and were taken to Södra Älvsborg Hospital in Borås. Two of them were transported to Queen Silvia's children's hospital in Gothenburg and one child was flown by helicopter to the burn center in Linköping.

Region Östergötland states at 10 o'clock that the child has life-threatening injuries, writes TT.

For the four children being cared for at Södra Älvsborg hospital, the condition is stable.

Information from Gothenburg is expected during the day.

According to Borås Tidning, two more people with smoke damage were later admitted to the hospital.

Anna Karlander, who lives near the building, tells DN that she heard young people screaming in panic, and that it was chaos. One of them was sitting on the ground with 112 on his cell phone, and Anna realized that someone was still in the garage.

- At the same time as I arrived at the scene, another neighbor arrived there. In the middle of all this, he manages to open the garage door and get a boy out of there, she says.

The fire had been extinguished when the emergency services arrived at the scene.

The municipality is now mobilizing to be able to provide support to those who need it.

- There are seven of our young people in the city who are more or less bad there. Our thoughts go out to them and the families and we will do the best we can for them, says school director Patrik Strömsten.

The crisis management group is assembled and the Church of Sweden is open to provide support. They try to open a leisure farm during the day, and possibly there will also be efforts at school during the week, even though it's school holidays.