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A headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police say. | A headless torso found in waters off Denmark has been identified as missing Swedish journalist Kim Wall, Danish police say. |
There was a "DNA match between [the] torso and Kim Wall", Copenhagen police said early on Wednesday. | |
Ms Wall was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed on a submarine trip with inventor Peter Madsen. | Ms Wall was last seen alive on 10 August as she departed on a submarine trip with inventor Peter Madsen. |
The submarine sank hours after the search for Ms Wall began. Mr Madsen was charged with negligent manslaughter. | |
He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea. | He initially said he had dropped her off safely near Copenhagen, but has since said she died in an accident and that he had "buried" her at sea. |
Danish police believe the 40-tonne submarine was deliberately sunk by Mr Madsen. He denies any wrongdoing. | Danish police believe the 40-tonne submarine was deliberately sunk by Mr Madsen. He denies any wrongdoing. |
Lead investigator Jens Moller Jensen said that DNA had been taken from Kim Wall's hairbrush and toothbrush at her home in Sweden and it matched the remains found on a beach south of Copenhagen on Monday. There was metal attached to the headless torso to ensure it sank, he added. | |
Blood found on the submarine itself had also been identified as belonging to the Swedish journalist. He would not comment on the cause of death but said a post mortem examination was being carried out and police were still looking for the rest of her body. | |
What happened to Kim Wall? | |
Ms Wall, 30, was reported missing by her boyfriend in the early hours of 11 August, after she failed to return from a trip on Peter Madsen's homemade submarine, the Nautilus. | |
A freelance journalist who had written for the Guardian, New York Times and South China Morning Post, she was researching a feature about the inventor and the Nautilus, which he built in 2008 with crowdfunding. | |
Emergency services scoured the area of sea to the east of Copenhagen and the submarine was eventually spotted from a lighthouse south of the Oresund bridge between Denmark and Sweden. Within 30 minutes the vessel had sunk and Mr Madsen was rescued. | |
For 10 days, the search for the journalist continued. A torso was found by a passing cyclist on a beach near Koge Bay on Monday. | |
Police said the next day that the arms, legs and head had been deliberately cut off. They finally confirmed it was Kim Wall in a tweet early on Wednesday. | |
Mr Madsen's lawyer, Betina Hald Engmark, says her client has not confessed to anything. He pleaded not guilty in a closed-door judicial hearing earlier this month. |