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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jon Henley Europe correspondent

‘Gross sabotage’: traces of explosives found at sites of Nord Stream gas leaks

Picture taken on 29 September by the Danish Defence Command shows a gas leak at one of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea.
Picture taken on 29 September by the Danish Defence Command shows a gas leak at one of the damaged Nord Stream gas pipelines in the Baltic Sea. Photograph: AFP/Getty Images

Traces of explosives have been found at the sites of September’s multiple leaks from the Nord Stream gas pipelines, confirming that the breaches were the result of sabotage, Sweden’s prosecution authority has said.

“Analysis that has now been carried out shows traces of explosives on several of the objects that were recovered” from the scene in the Baltic Sea, Mats Ljungqvist, the prosecutor leading the investigation, said on Friday.

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