A 39-year-old woman is being held in Switzerland after a body was found "severed in two" in France, Swiss authorities said Wednesday.

The French woman, who lives in the Swiss village of Sainte-Croix, was "placed in pre-trial detention following her arrest on November 2 by a border guard patrol," police in the Vaud canton of western Switzerland said in a statement .

"She is suspected of having set fire to her home and of being involved in the disappearance of her landlord," police said.

Multiple sources told the AFP news agency Tuesday that a French woman residing in Vaud had been arrested after the discovery on Saturday of a body that had been cut in two in Fedry, a small village in neighboring eastern France.

The sources said the arrested woman had been identified as the tenant in a

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