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The Swedish navy said it had launched a search after receiving "credible information"
The Swedish navy has widened its search in the waters off Stockholm amid suspicions that a Russian submarine might be in trouble there.
It is the fourth day of the search, involving ships and helicopters.
Russia's defence ministry denied any "irregular situation" involving its ships. It said a Dutch submarine might have triggered Sweden's alert, after carrying out exercises in the area.
But this theory has been dismissed by the Dutch defence ministry.
"It was definitely not a Dutch submarine," a ministry spokeswoman in The Hague told the BBC.
Swedish radio says the search area has expanded to include more islands out into the Baltic, further away from Stockholm.
Swedish news website The Local says vessels and troops have been deployed from Moeja, north of Stockholm, to Ornoe, south of the capital, using sensors in an operation "continuing day and night".
The Baltic region has seen heightened tension in recent months as the conflict in eastern Ukraine has reawakened fears about Russian aggression. Soviet submarine sightings during the Cold War caused security alerts in Sweden in the 1980s.
The Swedish military says it is investigating "foreign underwater activity". It denied looking for a submarine, and said that it was conducting an intelligence operation.
However, a local newspaper said Sweden had intercepted a distress signal in Russian.
On Sunday Sweden's Rear Admiral Anders Grenstad said "it's likely that foreign underwater activity is taking place in the Stockholm archipelago".
"Over the last few days, observations have been made in three different locations, and we consider all those observations to be very credible."
He added that "this is an area of interest to foreign powers", though he avoided naming Russia.
Russia has several submarines based in Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave bordered by Poland and Lithuania and facing out to Sweden, as well as a much bigger force near Murmansk on the Kola Peninsula.
Last month, another Swedish newspaper, Expressen, reported an incursion by two Russian Sukhoi Su-24 fighter bombers into national airspace. Sweden scrambled jets to see them off, it said.
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