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.

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.

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

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.

Damage took place on land in 2 separate locations, with repair work still ongoing as of Tuesday morning, says media - Anadolu Ajansı

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,