A woman's torso has washed up near Copenhagen, hours after a man charged with killing a journalist told a court she had died aboard his homemade submarine.
The owner of the submarine, Peter Madsen, told a court that journalist Kim Wall, who had been missing since 11 August, had died in an accident and he had dumped her body in the sea.
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According to police, he subsequently explained that "there was an accident on board which caused Kim Wall's death and that he consequently buried her at sea at a non-defined location in the Bay of Koge", 25 miles south-west of the Danish capital.
Madsen's submarine, the 60-foot UC3 Nautilus, is reportedly the largest privately-built submarine in the world.
He was rescued from it "when it started taking on water south of Copenhagen" on Friday, according to ABC News.
Police are investigating whether Madsen deliberately sank the vessel to cover up his alleged involvement in Wall's death.