- South Korean police have arrested a 42-year-old woman who is believed to be the mother of the children.

- The bodies were found in New Zealand this August, but the murder is suspected to have been in 2018.

A South Korean-born New Zealand woman (C), suspected of murdering her two children in Auckland around 2018, leaves a police station in Ulsan, on September 15, 2022.

Arrested for the death of two minors found in two suitcases, where they would have remained for several years

The South Korean Police arrested a woman on Thursday for the alleged murder of two children whose remains were found in New Zealand on August 11 in two suitcases, where the bodies would have remained for several years, the country's authorities reported Oceanic.

"Police can confirm that the 42-year-old woman was arrested in South Korea" on "two counts of murder related to these two young victims," ​​New Zealand Police Inspector Tofilau Fa'amanuia Vaaelua said in a statement.

The New Zealand authorities, who had requested the help of the South Korean Police in the arrest of the suspect, have already processed the woman's extradition request, the statement added.

The woman, who was arrested in Ulsan (about 300 kilometers southeast of Seoul), was caught with her head completely covered with a hood while being transferred from the police station in that city to a vehicle that was to transport her to Seoul. When asked by the media gathered at the police station, she only exclaimed "I didn't do it."

The police have transferred the detainee to the South Korean capital to attend a hearing before the Seoul High Court in order to review the extradition order that the New Zealand authorities have issued, according to the Yonhap agency.

The detainee would presumably be the mother of the two minors, who was born in South Korea and has a New Zealand passport.

The woman, according to the investigations, entered her country of origin in the second half of 2018 without there being a customs exit record.

The bodies of the two little ones were found in early August in two suitcases allegedly bought by a family from the New Zealand city of Auckland at an auction of abandoned objects.

Authorities believe the two children, whose identities were not released and who were believed to be between five and 10 years old at the time of their deaths, may have been inside the suitcases for several years.

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