Swedish police investigate suspected water pump sabotage
Water supply was not impacted, Patrik Johansson, unit manager at Region Gotland's water and sewage department, told Aftonbladet newspaper and SVT, Sweden's national broadcaster. Susanne Bjergegaard-Pettersson, Gotland's head of water and sewage, told Aftonbladet, which first reported the incident, that the water pumps draw from a lake that supplies large parts of the island.The BBC has contacted Bjergegaard-Pettersson for more information.Gotland is a large island in the Baltic Sea that sits to the east of mainland Sweden and west of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
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