Couple under probe for abandoning mother's body in suitcase

▲ The Daegu Bukbu Police Station (Yonhap)

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Couple under probe for abandoning mother's body in suitcase

DAEGU, April 1 (Yonhap) -- Police said Wednesday they are investigating a woman in her 20s and her husband on charges of placing her mother's body in a suitcase and abandoning it in a stream in the southeastern city of Daegu.

The couple were urgently detained Tuesday night after confessing during police interrogation that they put the body in a suitcase at their home in central Daegu, 250 kilometers southeast of Seoul, on March 18, then walked to the nearby Sincheon Stream and left it there.

The interrogation took place after residents reported the suitcase floating in the stream and the police confirmed through CCTV analysis that the couple were seen leaving their home dragging the same bag.

The police plan to determine the exact cause of the death of the mother in her 50s through an autopsy and a search of the couple's home.

The police are focusing on whether the couple directly killed her mother, whether others were involved, and what motivated them to abandon the body, according to the Daegu Bukbu Police Station.

They plan to seek arrest warrants for the couple once the circumstances of the case are clarified.

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