Concord (New Hampshire), July 30 (DPA) Police found alive a baby girl who was cut from her mother's womb and arrested two people in connection with the woman's murder, ABC television reported Thursday.

The infant's mother, 23-year-old Darlene Haynes, was found dead and wrapped in bedsheets in her Worcester, Massachusetts, apartment. The body had a large cut in her abdomen and a post-mortem showed that the foetus was missing. Haynes had been eight months pregnant.

Police detained a woman identified as Julie Corey, 35 and a man, who were found with the child in Plymouth, New Hampshire. Corey was charged as a fugitive from justice.

The infant was brought to a hospital in Plymouth. The girl was doing well for the circumstances, ABC said.