Bulgarian shipping company denies vessel sabotaged Baltic Sea cable

The chief executive cited information obtained from the crew that the ship was sailing late on Sunday in extremely bad weather

The firm behind the ship denied any sabotage on the part of its crew (Johan Nilsson/TT News Agency via AP)

A Bulgarian shipping company has denied that one of its ships intentionally damaged an underwater fibre optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland.

Navibulgar chief executive Alexander Kalchev said it was possible that the Vezhen ship had caused a cable to break, but dismissed any possibility of sabotage or any other action on the part of the crew.