On Thursday morning firefighters were still battling to contain a blaze at Stockholm's Royal Institute of Art which started the previous day sending a plume of smoke across Sweden's capital.

About 45 firefighters were still at work on Thursday morning to try and extinguish the blaze, Swedish news agency TT reported.

The fire, which started on Wednesday afternoon, raced through the attic and roof of the building on Skeppsholmen island near downtown Stockholm.