A PREGNANT woman died after being stabbed in the chest and her nearly full-term baby cut from her w**** in an horrific attack.

The baby boy was hospitalised at Deaconess Medical Centre in Spokane, Washington state, and was said to be in a critical condition.

A 23-year-old woman has been arrested.

Court documents said 27-year-old mum Araceli Camacho Gomez had her hands and feet bound with string and suffered massive trauma to her stomach area" late on Friday night.


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An autopsy showed she died of the chest wounds, but had other wounds consistent with the cutting of the body to remove an unborn child.

Her body was found early Saturday in a park in the city of Kennewick, in the north-west US state.

Local woman Phiengchai Sisouvanh Synhavong has been arrested for investigation of first-degree murder and is accused of trying to pass the infant boy off as her own in calls made late on Friday night to emergency services.

She was being held without bail yesterday, with another court appearance scheduled tomorrow.

Court documents say gloves soaked in *lo**, a boxcutter, *lo**y paper towels, string, baby bottle and baby socks were among some of the items found in Sisouvanh Synhavongs bag.