Headless torso found in search for missing journalist

Discovery comes hours after Danish inventor told court woman died on homemade submarine

World's largest homemade submarine recovered in search for missing journalist
(Image credit: Ole Jensen/Corbis via Getty Images)

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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