Reading test for learners of English - The Little Mermaid (newspaper article

Few clues in Little Mermaid whodunnit

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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 about the second in 35 years of the famous statue on Copenhagen's , which has shocked the Danish and worried tourism .
    Frogmen scouring the near the statue failed to find the Little Mermaid's bronze and two youths on roller skates seen near the early on Tuesday morning have not responded to police to help in the investigation.
    "I am afraid that the latest on the Little Mermaid can backfire on our ," said Bernhard Joergensen, director of the Wonderful Copenhagen tourism .
    "It is important for a tourist city to have a like the Eiffel Tower in Paris and London's Big Ben."
    Based on the by Hans Christian Andersen about the Sea King's daughter who must wait on her for 300 years before entering the of humans and marrying her prince, the Little Mermaid attracts almost one million tourists a year.
    The statue was found severed at the by a saw or grinding machine after an anonymous call to a local television cameraman before on Tuesday.
    Police are working on a that the beheading was the work of the same person who sawed off a 19th century galleon at a naval base in Copenhagen just before Christmas.
    The severed figurehead was found in the ladies' toilets of a department store on Tuesday, giving rise to police a mentally disturbed woman may be behind the two decapitations.