No sign of reporter who disappeared from submarine

Police technicians board the amateur -built submarine UC3 Nautilus on a pier in Copenhagen harbour, to conduct forensic probes in connection with a murder investigation. Picture: Jacob Ehrbahn/Ritzau Foto via AP

Police technicians board the amateur -built submarine UC3 Nautilus on a pier in Copenhagen harbour, to conduct forensic probes in connection with a murder investigation. Picture: Jacob Ehrbahn/Ritzau Foto via AP

Published Aug 15, 2017

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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.

dpa

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