GENEVA — 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 has been “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.

“She is suspected of having set fire to her home and of being involved in the disappearance of her landlord,” the regional police said in a statement.

Multiple sources told AFP Tuesday that a French woman residing in the Vaud canton had been arrested after the discovery on Saturday of a body cut in two in Fedry, a small village in Haute-Saone in neighbouring eastern France.

The sources said the arrested woman had been identified

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