About a month after the remains of two children were found in auctioned suitcases in New Zealand, the alleged mother of the dead man was arrested in South Korea. The 42-year-old is suspected of murder, the police authorities in South Korea and New Zealand said on Thursday. Extradition proceedings are to be initiated against them.

The suspect was arrested after a tip from the population in an apartment in Ulsan, the South Korean police said. Surveillance measures have preceded it. The woman is accused by investigators in New Zealand of killing her children, who were then seven and ten years old, around 2018 in the Auckland region.

The woman then left for South Korea, where she has been hiding ever since, the police said. According to the Yonhap news agency, it was a South Korean-born woman with a New Zealand passport.

The remains of the two children were discovered after an unsuspecting family bought a trailerload of abandoned items, including the two suitcases, at an auction.