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Woman Arrested After Her 2 Children Found Dead in Suitcases
Police in South Korea have arrested a 42-year-old woman on murder charges after her two children’s remains were found in suitcases in New Zealand last month.
The woman is suspected of fleeing New Zealand to South Korea in 2018 after allegedly murdering her 7 and 10-year-old children in Auckland.
As she was escorted from an Ulsan police station, she yelled at reporters, “I did not do it.”
The Ministry of Justice said New Zealand must formally request extradition of the suspect within 45 days for a South Korean court to consider whether to send her back.
Police in Auckland began a homicide investigation after a family bought an unseen storage locker and found the remains of the two children.
Police in Auckland launched a homicide investigation after a family found the remains in a storage locker they had purchased without seeing the contents.
Police said, the two children were between the ages of 7 and 10 and had been dead for some time.
They said they had been storing the suitcases for some time without giving further details. The police did not provide any details on how the children died or whether there were any suspects.
There was no connection between the family that found the bodies and the deceased.
