Two data cables running across the land border between Sweden and Finland have been repaired, a day after they were damaged affecting 6,000 private customers and 100 businesses, a company providing digital infrastructure and data communication in Northern Europe said Tuesday.

Sweden has formally asked China to co-operate with an investigation into damage to two cables in the Baltic Sea last month. The cables - one linking Sweden to Lithuania and the other between Finland and Germany - were damaged in Swedish territorial waters in the Baltic Sea on 17 and 18 November.

A fibre optic cable connecting Finland and Sweden has been cut, leading to internet outages and suspicions of sabotage.

Another fiber-optic internet cable has broken between Finland and Sweden. The causes of the damage are unknown.This is reported by the Finnish publication

Finland and Sweden were plunged into digital drama as a fibre-optic cable linking the two nations was mysteriously damaged in two places on Monday, December 2, in the afternoon.

Local Swedish media say a data cable running across the land border between Sweden and Finland has been damaged

No culprit has yet been identified - but given the ongoing geopolitical tensions, suspicion inevitably fell on Vladimir Putin's Russia.

A land cable appears to have been damaged in two separate places on Monday afternoon, digital infrastructure provider GlobalConnect said in a statement.

Finland's transport agency says that fibre-optic cables connecting Finland and Sweden appear to have been cut accidentally. "Both cables appear to have been cut during construction work," Traficom said,