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South Korean police arrest woman over New Zealand children found dead in suitcases
- The woman is suspected of fleeing to South Korea in 2018 after killing two children in Auckland, authorities said
- Bodies were discovered last month after a New Zealand family bought abandoned goods, including two suitcases, from a storage unit in an online auction
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South Korean police on Thursday said they arrested a woman believed to be the mother of two children whose remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand last month.
The Korean-born New Zealand citizen in her 40s was arrested in the southeastern city of Ulsan earlier in the day, after global police agency Interpol issued a red notice, the Korean National Police Agency said.
The woman is suspected of fleeing to South Korea in 2018 after killing the two children in Auckland, authorities said.
Images in local media showed the woman, who has not been identified by police in South Korea or New Zealand, being led out of the Ulsan police station by plainclothed investigators, covering her head with a large brown coat.
The woman, who was wearing ripped jeans and sandals, was asked by local media whether she would confess to the killings.
“I didn’t do it,” the woman said repeatedly, as she was led away and put into a police vehicle.
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