SWEDEN OPENS PROBE INTO BALTIC UNDERSEA CABLE DAMAGE-Sweden’s Security Service has seized control of a vessel as part of the probe
Sweden has opened a probe into Baltic Undersea cable damage. The Malta-flagged bulk carrier Vezhen was escorted to Swedish waters by a Swedish Coast Guard vessel after an undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday.
It later anchored outside the Swedish naval base in Karlskrona in southern Sweden.
Sweden’s Security Service has seized control of a vessel as part of the probe, the country’s prosecution authority said.
This is the latest incident in the Baltic Sea in which power cables, telecom links, and gas pipelines have been damaged.
NATO, which deployed patrol ships to the area on Sunday, is coordinating military ships and aircraft under its recently deployed mission, dubbed “Baltic Sentry”.
It was not immediately clear if the Vezhen, which passed the fiber optic cable at 0045 GMT on Sunday, was subject to investigation.
