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Finnish police seize ship suspected of sabotaging undersea cable [View all]
Source: BBC
Finnish police have detained a vessel suspected of damaging an undersea telecoms cable running from Helsinki to Estonia across the Gulf of Finland.
The cargo vessel, the Fitburg, was sailing from St Petersburg to the port of Haifa in Israel, under the flag of St Vincent and Grenadines.
All 14 crew members were arrested after the cable owned by Finnish telecoms operator Elisa was damaged. The operator said in a statement that the damage had "not affected the functionality of Elisa's services in any way", and that its services had been re-routed.
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The detained crew members were Russian, Georgian, Kazakh and Azerbaijani, police added.
Read more: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62040np372o
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