Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson announced that his country has officially requested China's cooperation in investigating the damage to undersea telecommunication cables in the Baltic Sea. "Sweden has sent a formal request to China seeking cooperation to help clarify what happened when two undersea cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea,

Sweden on Thursday sent a "formal request" for China to cooperate in the investigation after a Chinese ship was linked to the cutting of two Baltic Sea cables, prime minister Ulf Kristersson said.

Two Baltic Sea telecom cables were severed in Swedish waters earlier this month. Suspicions have been directed at a Chinese ship, which ship tracking sites said had sailed over the cables around the time they were cut.

Sweden is asking a Chinese vessel to return to Swedish waters to help facilitate an investigation into recent breaches of undersea fibre-optic cables in the Baltic Sea, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Tuesday,

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden has sent a formal request to China seeking cooperation to help clarify what happened when two undersea cables were damaged in the Baltic Sea, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said on Thursday.

Sweden has formally asked China to cooperate in explaining the recent rupture of two data cables on the Baltic Sea bed in an area where a China-flagged vessel had been sighted.

Sweden has demanded that the Chinese vessel connected to an investigation of two Internet cables in the Baltic Sea being damaged earlier this month return to its waters as part of the probe.