03-03-2025
Swedish police investigate suspected water pump sabotage
Swedish police are investigating a suspected sabotage incident on a water pump on the island of Gotland in the Baltic told the BBC that the local government's water unit received an alarm for a water pump on Sunday at 17:30 local time (16:30 GMT). "Technicians found that someone has opened an electrical cabinet, pulled out a cable and thereby cut off the power to the pump," police said. The technician put the cable back and reset the alarm at 21:30 local time, and the pump is now have cordoned off the area and started an investigation "on sabotage", but have not yet detained anyone.
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 BBC has contacted Bjergegaard-Pettersson for more is a large island in the Baltic Sea that sits to the east of mainland Sweden and west of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.
