A remote set of UK islands were cut off from all communication Thursday, police said. A communications company said there was a "break" in a vital undersea cable. Local police on the Shetland Islands said that there was a "complete outage" in the islands and that "phones, internet and computers are not usable." A map that shows the undersea cables that connect to the Shetland Islands. Telegeography/InsiderThe outage came after an another undersea cable to Shetland, connecting it to the still-more-remote Faroe Island, was also damaged, the BBC reported.

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