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 arrest took place at the request of Latvian authorities, the police in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsoe said. "It is suspected that the ship has been involved in serious damage to a fibre cable in the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Sweden,

Norwegian police have arrested a ship with a Russian crew on suspicion of involvement in the damage to a fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden in the Baltic Sea. Source: European Pravda, citing the police’s statement Details: Norwegian authorities confirmed that the Silver Dania was detained following a legal request from Latvian authorities

In the Baltic Sea, there has been one accident after another recently involving the breaking of a deep-sea cable. Tankers and dry cargo ships coming from Russia and dropping their anchors to the bottom are suspected of this.

A second vessel suspected of damaging a subsea data cable connecting Sweden and Latvia has been detained, this time by authorities in Norway.