STOCKHOLM
\nSwedish police said Tuesday they were investigating whether a fire that reduced a mosque to rubble the previous day in central Sweden was arson.
\n\u201cThe investigation into the fire is continuing. Police will question witnesses and verify whether there were security cameras in the area,\u201d the police said in a statement on their website.
\nThe fire broke out on Monday around noon in Eskilstuna, a town of 108,000 people 150 kilometers (93 miles) west of Stockholm, causing no injuries, a police spokesman told AFP.
\nThere are no suspects and no arrests have been made.
\n\u201cThe mosque is almost completely destroyed, nothing can be saved,\u201d mosque spokesman Anas Deneche told AFP.
\nDeneche said the mosque had been the target of several acts of violence in the past year and his family had been threatened.
\n\u201cBut it\u2019s still too early to draw any conclusions (about the cause of the fire), we\u2019ll have to wait for the police to do their work,\u201d he said.
\nPolice said they were investigating several leads but provided no other details.
\nBetween 15,000 and 20,000 Muslims live in Eskilstuna.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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