Second Ship Seized in Baltic Sea Cable Damage Investigation

OSLO, Jan 31 (Reuters) – Norwegian police said on Friday they had seized and boarded a Norwegian ship with an all-Russian crew on suspicion of involvement in causing damage to a telecoms cable in the Baltic Sea, the second vessel to be named by investigators in the case.

The Silver Dania cargo ship was seized at the request of Latvian authorities, and with the help of Norway’s coast guard, police in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsoe said.

“It is suspected that the ship has been involved in serious damage to a fiber cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden,” the police said in a statement.

The Silver Dania’s owner, the Silver Sea shipping group, denied that the vessel was involved in the undersea fiber optic cable damage, Norwegian broadcaster TV2 reported.

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