Dead pregnant woman had baby cut from womb

A PREGNANT woman stabbed to death in Washington state at the weekend had her near full-term baby cut from her womb, police said.

Kennewick police chief Ken Hohenberg said the baby was on life support at Deaconess Medical Centre in Spokane. A woman has been arrested.

Court documents say 27-year-old Araceli Camacho Gomez had her hands and feet bound with yarn and suffered massive trauma to her stomach area.