COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) – Police from Sweden were assisting their Danish counterparts on Tuesday for clues in the search for a missing Swedish woman who apparently was aboard an amateur-built submarine a day before it sank.
The Danish owner of the submarine, inventor Peter Madsen, was questioned after the UC3 Nautilus sank Friday. Police later arrested him on preliminary manslaughter charges in connection with the disappearance of 30-year-old freelance journalist Kim Wall, who was on a reporting assignment aboard the submarine.
It wasn’t clear which media organization commissioned Wall or what she was reporting on.
Madsen has said previously that Wall had disembarked from the submarine Thursday night and he doesn’t know anything about her fate. Danish authorities haven’t said why they filed the manslaughter charges, or whether they are searching for a body or if they expect to find Wall alive.
Swedish police spokesman Mattias Sigfridsson said Tuesday that authorities in Sweden are providing details about people and places that could be useful to investigators in Denmark, but declined to be more specific.