South Korea police arrest woman over 2 NZ children found dead in suitcases
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A woman charged in Korea in connection with children's bodies found in suitcases faces a review at the Seoul High Court over whether she should be extradited to New Zealand.
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Police in South Korea have arrested and charged a woman with the murder of what are believed to be her two children whose remains were found inside abandoned suitcases in New Zealand last month.
The 42-year-old Korean-born New Zealand woman is suspected of fleeing to South Korea in 2018 after allegedly killing her then seven-year-old and 10-year-old children in Auckland, authorities said.
The woman, who denied the murder allegations, was arrested after global police agency Interpol issued a red notice, the Korean National Police Agency said.
“I did not do it,” she told reporters as she was escorted from a police station in the southeastern city of Ulsan.
The woman, who has not been identified by authorities, covered her face with the hood of her coat as officers escorted her outside an Ulsan police station and put her in a car headed for Seoul, where she was expected to be questioned by prosecutors.
In a case that shocked the country and made headlines worldwide, the bodies were discovered in early August after a family bought the contents of an abandoned storage unit in Auckland, sight unseen.
According to the BBC, the bodies were believed to have been stored for a few years.
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