Second Baltic Sea telecom cable damaged: Sweden
The Hindu
Swedish minister investigates damaged undersea cable linking Lithuania and Sweden, amid concerns of sabotage in Finland-Germany cable cut.
A Swedish government minister said Tuesday (November 19, 2024) that the country was investigating a damaged telecommunications undersea cable linking Lithuania and Sweden, a day after the announcement that a cable linking Finland and Germany was cut in what Berlin considers "sabotage".
Minister for Civil Defence Carl-Oskar Bohlin told AFP in a written statement that it was "crucial to clarify why we currently have two cables in the Baltic Sea that are not working".
Bohlin added that "relevant Swedish authorities are investigating the events".
The "Arelion" submarine cable between the Swedish island of Gotland and Lithuania has been damaged since Sunday morning, a spokesman for the Lithuanian branch of the operator Telia said Tuesday.
Internet traffic has been redirected to other international links, Audrius Stasiulaitis said.
"We can confirm that the interruption to internet traffic was not caused by an equipment fault but by material damage to the fibre optic cable," he said.
He added that customers were at this time not being affected by the outage.
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