A man was arrested in France on Sunday over the gruesome murder of a heavily pregnant woman who was suffocated in her bed, a source close to the investigation said. The 23-year-old woman, who was eight months pregnant, was found naked, tied up and blindfolded on Wednesday in her apartment in Ustaritz, in the southern Basque region near the Spanish border. The suspect, who had no fixed address, was detained in nearby Boucau after a high-speed car chase with police. According to reports in France he had a history of mental illness. The dead woman's partner had found her body and raised the alarm.

Source: The Local September 17, 2017 16:41 UTC