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.

A Norwegian-owned and Russian-crewed ship that authorities suspect may have been involved in damage to an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island

Police in Norway said Friday they had released a Russian-crewed cargo ship seized over suspected involvement in damage to a fibre-optic cable in the Baltic Sea, having found no evidence linking it to the incident.

A ship with a Russian crew that was briefly held on suspicion of being involved in cable damage in the Baltic Sea has been released by the Norwegian authorities. Police in the northern Norwegian city of Tromsø announced on Friday that there was no evidence that the Silver Dania ship had anything to do with the recent damage to a fibre optic cable