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Swedish and Danish authorities are investigating four holes in
the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which link Russia and Germany
via the Baltic Sea and have become a flashpoint in the Ukraine
crisis.
Further investigations into the Sept. 26 ruptures in Denmark's
exclusive economic zone will be handled jointly by Copenhagen
Police and the country's Security and Intelligence Service.
World leaders have called the damages an act of sabotage but it
still remains unclear who might be behind the detonations.
The Danish findings appeared to be similar to those of Swedish
prosecutors, who said two other holes in the pipelines also
seemed to have been caused by explosions and that the case was
being investigated as an act of gross sabotage.
A section measuring at least 50 metres (164 feet) is missing
from the ruptured Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline, Swedish daily
Expressen reported on Tuesday after filming what it said were
the first publicly released images of the damage.
Reuters could not independently verify that the images published
by the newspaper were of Nord Stream 1.
Seismologists in Denmark have previously said they had
registered tremors in the vicinity of the leaks measuring as
much as 2.3 on the Richter scale and that the signals did not
resemble those from earthquakes.
Danish police could not say when the investigation is expected
to be concluded.
"It is still too early to say anything about the framework under
which the international cooperation with e.g. Sweden and Germany
will run, as it depends on several factors," Copenhagen Police
said in a statement.
(Reporting by Stine Jacobsen, editing by Terje Solsvik and Ed
Osmond)
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