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Danish police have been left scratching their

heads as they hunt for the vandals who

decapitated the Little Mermaid.

Few clues have emerged of the second 【M1】______

beheading in 35 years of the famous statue on

Copenhagen's waterfront, which has shocked 【M2】______

Danish public and worried tourism officials.

Frogmen scouring the harbor near the statue

failed to find the Little Mermaid's bronze head

and two youth on roller skates seen near the 【M3】______

landmark early on Tuesday morning have not

responded police requests to help in the 【M4】______

investigation.

"I am afraid that the latest attack on the

Little Mermaid can backfire on our tourism,"

said Bernhard Joergensen, director of the

Wonderful Copenhagen tourism organization.

"It is important for a tourist city to have a

symbol like the Eiffel Tower in Paris and the 【M5】______

London's Big Ben."

Based on the fairytale of Hans Christian 【M6】______

Andersen about the Sea King's daughter that 【M7】______

must wait on her rock for 300 years before

entering the world of humans and marrying her

prince, the Little Mermaid attracts almost one

million tourists a year.

The statue was found sever at the neck by a 【M8】______

saw or grinding machine after an anonymous call

to a local television cameraman before dawn on

Tuesday.

Police are working on a theory that the

beheading was the work of the same person who

sawed a 19th century galleon figurehead at a 【M9】______

naval base in Copenhagen just before Christmas.

The severed figurehead was found in the

ladies' toilets of a department store on Tuesday,

give rise to police suspicions a mentally disturbed 【M10】______

woman may be behind the two decapitations.

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