An elderly couple died in a house fire in the northern Stockholm suburb of Marsta on Tuesday.

The man and woman were both in their eighties.

Neighbors raised an alarm shortly after midnight on Tuesday. Hours later the fire had still not been fully extinguished.

"We were on location 10 minutes after receiving the alarm, but the house was in a cul-de-sac and it was in the middle of the night," Frida Rydberg of the emergency services told newspaper Dagens Nyheter. She added: "The fire was very intense."

The cause of the fire is not known, but according to Rydberg it was most likely an accident.