<div>A telecommunications cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden in the Baltic Sea has been damaged, Swedish telecoms company Telia Lietuva in Vilnius said.&nbsp;</div>
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<div>"The cable was cut on Sunday morning, at around 10:00 am local time. Further investigation and clarification took place, and it turned out that it was damaged," Andrius Semeskevicius, the company's chief technology officer, told local media.</div>
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<div>This incident followed earlier Finnish media reports about an unexplained failure of an undersea cable between Finland and Germany.</div>
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<div>"These failures are mostly related to shipping. When a ship hooks the cable, it breaks it off somewhere in a shallow place, close to the shore, by dropping anchor incorrectly," he explained.</div>
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<div>However, he added that this case is more serious, as the Lithuania-Sweden and Germany-Finland cables intersect in a small area of only 10 square metres, Xinhua news agency reported.</div>
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<div>Since both cables are damaged, "it is clear that this was not an accidental dropping of one of the ship's anchors, but something more serious," the Telia officer said.</div>
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<div>The damage has completely disrupted data transmission between Finland and Germany. The nearly 1,200-km-long cable is the only direct link of its kind between Finland and Central Europe,&nbsp; reports IANS.&nbsp;</div>
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Submarine internet cables surveyed by China's team (file photo)

This case is more serious, as the Lithuania-Sweden and Germany-Finland cables intersect in a small area of only 10 square metres

Undersea telecom cable between Lithuania, Sweden damaged

This case is more serious, as the Lithuania-Sweden and Germany-Finland cables intersect in a small area of only 10 square metres

November 20, 2024 | 10:18 IST