Stockholm - The search for a missing Swedish reporter last seen
on an amateur-built Danish submarine has so far turned up no trace of
the woman, Danish police said Tuesday.
A spotter aircraft was deployed as well as vessels on the water,
Copenhagen police spokesman Steen Hansen told dpa, adding he had no
details of where the search was centred.
Freelance reporter Kim Wall was last seen Thursday on the submarine
UC3 Nautilus along with its owner and designer Peter Madsen.
Madsen is in police custody after being charged with involuntary
manslaughter. He denies the allegations.
Swedish journalist Kim Wall was last seen aboard an amateur-built submarine. Picture: Tom Wall via AP
Swedish police have not been deployed in the search pending a formal
request but have conducted some investigative measures requested by
Danish police who are running the probe, police spokesman Mattias
Sigfridsson of southern Sweden's Skane region told reporters.
Swedish police urged boat owners plying the Oresund straits between
the two countries to be on the lookout.
Due to the currents in the Oresund, Danish police have not ruled out
that a body could wash up along Swedish shores.
The voluntary Swedish Life Saving Society said Tuesday they were
continuing their own search along the south-western Swedish coast,
spokesman Fredrik Winbladh told Swedish media.
Police technicians investigate the rescued private submarine "UC3 Nautilus" in Copenhagen Harbor. Picture: Jens Noergaard Larsen/Scanpix Denmark via Reuters
Steen said Copenhagen police had received about 200 tips that were
being analyzed.
The last hours of the submarine's final journey are key. Danish
police say Madsen sunk it deliberately Friday in the Bay of Koge,
south of Copenhagen, shortly before he was rescued.
Madsen said he dropped Wall off at Refshaleoen island, an industrial
area east of Copenhagen, late Thursday.