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.

The Swedish coast guard seized a Bulgarian ship after a fibre-optic cable under the Baltic Sea linking Sweden to Latvia was damaged, officials said on Monday. The damage to the cable occurred in Swedish territorial waters at a depth of at least 50 metres (164 feet),

The Vezhen ship, owned by Navigation Maritime Bulgare, might have accidentally damaged the cable between Sweden and Latvia. The incident, reported by Reuters, was not intentional according to the company's head,