A man suspected of murdering a woman and abandoning the body in the trunk of her car was arrested on Thursday, police said.

The suspect, surnamed Kim, is accused of driving the car of the 35-year-old woman after kidnapping the victim at an underground parking lot of a big supermarket in the southwestern city of Asan on Sept. 9.

Kim was apprehended around 11 a.m. on a street in eastern Seoul, about one kilometer away from a veterinary clinic where he threatened a nurse for a drug used to euthanize dogs and reportedly asked to be euthanized.

He later left the clinic after a veterinarian and another nurse locked themselves in one of the clinic's offices and made a distress call to the authorities.

Seoul police said they plan to question Kim to further investigate the motive behind the alleged murder. (Yonhap)