New Zealand: Children’s bodies in suitcases – police are tracking their relatives

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Children’s bodies in bags auctioned: Police track down relatives of the dead

Nearly a week after the bodies of two children were discovered in two suitcases in New Zealand, police in South Korea have tracked down a woman who may have had contact with the children. As South Korean police announced on Monday, the New Zealanders who voted in the vote have been in South Korea since 2018. Police said they will work with investigators in New Zealand.

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The suitcases containing the two children’s remains appear to have been stored in a New Zealand storage room for years. Since the warehouse’s owner can no longer be traced, its contents – a trailer load of household items – were auctioned last week. And a reassuring family won the tender and opened the bags. The family from an Auckland suburb is not a suspect in the case, New Zealand police made clear last week.

According to New Zealand police, the children may have died several years ago. When they died, they were between five and ten years old. In order to clarify the case, investigators have now evaluated hours of recordings from surveillance cameras. Because the children died long ago, important passages could have been deleted long ago. The warehouse where the bags were kept and the family home they were taken to after the auction were also checked by criminal investigators.

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Police said the family who bought the bags asked for their privacy to be respected. She received support in dealing with her trauma. One of the family’s neighbors told The New Zealand Herald that he is currently looking after their home. The family left Auckland due to the media hype surrounding the shocking discovery in the suitcases.

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