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Sun, 13 Dec, 2015 12:07:12 AM FTimes-STT-Xinhua Report, Dec 13  Hotel Tallukka in Asikkala yard isolated on Saturday morning, December 12 2015 after arson attack on Friday night. Photo – Str / Lehtikuva. A fire broke out at dawn on Saturday in a hotel, which is planned to use as a refugee reception cen-ter in Asikkala, southern Finland.
The police suspected the fire was deliberately ignited.
The suspected arsonist entered the hotel by breaking a window, and ignited fire inside of the hotel.
The fire did not make big damage to the structure of the hotel, but the smoke spread widely and caused damages inside.
Police said no casualty was reported and the fire was soon brought under control.
The reception center was scheduled to open for asylum seekers before Christmas.
Kalevi Gran, owner of the hotel, told STT that the hotel can still be opened as a reception center, despite of the fire. He added that the cleaning work is underway.
The Interior Minister, Petteri Orpo also commented on the attempt to burn the hotel in Asikkala, Päijät-Häme, which is being converted into a refugee reception center.
“To take the law into your own hands is wrong,” Orpo said while talking to national broadcaster Yle in its Ykkösaamu (Morning breakfast programme).
According to Orpo, crimes by both immigrants and native Finns are always reprehensible.
It was the second suspected arson attack targeting a refugee reception center in Finland this week.
On Thursday, a suspected arson in a reception center caused the evacuation of 80 asylum seeker in Tampere, southwest Finland.
Earlier, a building planned to accommodate refugees was burnt down by a fierce fire on Tuesday morning in Kankaanpää, western Finland on December 1 and police suspected that the fire was set intentionally.
Another planned refugee reception center caught fire on Friday morning in Rauma, southwest Fin-land on December 4.
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