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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

A Bulgarian shipping company denies its vessel sabotaged a Baltic Sea cable

Latvia Underwater Cable - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A Bulgarian shipping company on Monday denied that one of its ships had intentionally damaged an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.

In a statement, Navibulgar CEO Alexander Kalchev said it was possible that the Vezhen ship had caused a cable to break but dismissed any possibility of sabotage or any other action on the part of the crew.

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