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Suspicious metal object in the water outside Helsinki turned out to be wreckage

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Suspicious metal object in the water outside Helsinki turned out to be wreckage

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A funnel-shaped metal object was discovered in the water south of Gustavssvärd island outside Helsinki on Saturday evening.
Finnish authorities, including the defense forces, examined the object, which at 02.30 Swedish time was confirmed to be harmless and probably a piece of wreckage.
The ferry Viking XPRS was delayed four hours due to the incident.

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The incident occurred in the waters off Helsinki, where suspicious objects in the water often lead to security calls.

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The funnel-shaped metal object was discovered in the water south of the island of Gustavssvärd outside Helsinki on Saturday evening. Finnish authorities, including the Finnish Defense Forces, were called in to investigate the object.

At 02.30, Swedish time, the police confirmed that the object was not explosive and according to an initial assessment by the authorities, it is a piece of wreckage, reports Yle.

The Finnish ferry Viking XPRS, which was supposed to depart for Tallinn at 8 p.m., was delayed by four hours due to the discovery.

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What type of ship or structure is the wreck part from?
Will further investigations be made of the site?

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This article was originally published by SVT Nyheter.