Sweden: Traces of explosives found at Baltic Sea pipelines

By JARI TANNER
Associated Press

HELSINKI (AP) — A Swedish prosecutor says investigators have found traces of explosives at the Baltic Sea site where two gas natural pipelines were damaged in what he called an act of “gross sabotage.” Mats Ljungqvist of the Swedish Prosecution Authority said Friday evidence of explosives came from “several of the foreign objects that were found” where the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines ruptured in September. The parallel undersea pipelines run from Russia to Germany. The authority said the preliminary investigation was “very complex and comprehensive” and further scrutiny would show whether anyone could be charged “with suspicion of crime.”