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Police find bag containing head and legs of Swedish journalist

Kim Wall's headless torso was found floating in waters off Copenhagen on 21 August
Kim Wall's headless torso was found floating in waters off Copenhagen on 21 August

Divers have found the head and legs of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, who died in mysterious circumstances on an inventor's homemade submarine.

Peter Madsen has been charged with killing the Swedish journalist, who disappeared after she went on a trip with him in his submarine on 10 August.

He denies the charges.

Mr Madsen, a Dane, was arrested after his submarine sank and he was rescued.

His lawyer, Betina Hald Engmark, said that she had been informed of the development, but had not received any material or documentation and declined further comment.

Police identified a headless female torso that washed ashore in Copenhagen later in August as Ms Wall's, but a cause of death has not been determined.

Mr Madsen has said Ms Wall died in an accident when she was hit by a heavy hatch cover on board his submarine.

This morning a police spokesman told reporters in Copenhagen that there were no fractures to Ms Wall's skull.

The body parts, a knife and some of Ms Wall's clothes in bags weighted down by bits of metal were found in Koge Bay yesterday by Danish navy divers who are assisting the police.

Police spokesman Jens Moller Jensen told reporters that the body parts will be investigated further to try to determine a cause of death.

He said that Mr Madsen and his lawyers had not had time yet to react to the new evidence.

A police prosecutor said earlier this week that officers had found images "which we presume to be real" of women being strangled and decapitated on Mr Madsen's computer in a laboratory he ran.

Mr Madsen said the computer searched by police was not his but was used by everyone in the laboratory.