New Zealand police have arrested a woman in South Korea for the murder of two children whose bodies were found in suitcases bought last month by a family in an Auckland warehouse.

"The suspect, 42, is accused by New Zealand police of killing two of her children , then aged seven and ten, around 2018 in the Auckland area," the Seoul National Police Agency said. It was discovered that she arrived in South Korea after the crime and has been in hiding ever since. "

The woman was in an apartment in the city of Ulsan, in the south-east of the country, and was tracked down this morning. "I didn't do it," he repeated several times, covering his head with a jacket, according to the Yonhap news agency. New Zealand has requested extradition from South Korea.

According to investigators, the South Korean family had been living in Auckland for a few years and the children's father had died before the murder. Investigators focused on her after they managed to identify the children, whose names were not disclosed.

The case has shocked New Zealand, authorities have demanded that she be denied bail before her extradition. The family that found the bodies had visited the storage warehouse and purchased a trailer loaded with goods, including suitcases, in early August.

(Unioneonline / D)