SWEDISH authorities said today that they were investigating a damaged cable that was discovered in the Baltic Sea, the latest in a string of recent incidents of ruptured undersea cables in the region.

The breakage was found on a cable that runs between Germany and Finland off the island of Gotland, south of Stockholm, in the Swedish economic zone, the news agency TT reported Friday.

A “preliminary investigation into sabotage was opened,” Swedish police said in a statement, saying that it had “no further information to share at this time.”

Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on the social media that the government takes all reports of damage to infrastructure in the Baltic Sea very seriously.

Late last month, authorities discovered damage to the undersea fibre-optic cable running between the Latvian city of Ventspils and Sweden’s Gotland.

A vessel belonging to a Bulgarian shipping company was seized but later released after Swedish prosecutors ruled out initial suspicions that sabotage caused the damage.