Father wanted after toddler's mother's body found

Police issued a murder and kidnapping warrant yesterday for the father of a 3-year-old girl found abandoned in Australia, after identifying the body of her mother found stuffed in the trunk of a car in New Zealand.

The warrant for the arrest of Nai Zin Xue, a Chinese-language magazine publisher in New Zealand's largest city of Auckland, was sent to Interpol in the United States, where Xue fled several days ago, police spokeswoman Noreen Hegarty said.

A three-nation investigation was launched after Xue was captured on security camera footage leaving his daughter, Qian Xun Xue, alone at a train station in Melbourne, Australia, on Saturday. He boarded a flight to Los Angeles shortly afterward.