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

Sofia, Bulgaria - The Swedish coast guard chased and intercepted a Bulgarian ship after a fiber-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Latvi

STOCKHOLM/SOFIA - Bulgarian shipping company Navigation Maritime Bulgares, which owns the Maltese-flagged cargo ship Vezhan, denies that the ship intentionally damaged the cable between Gotland and Latvia, REUTERS reports.