Woman Accused of Killing 2 Girls with Poisoned Raspberries Pulled Alive from River in Dramatic Capture By Becca Longmire

A woman accused of killing two teenage girls with poisoned chocolate-covered raspberries in Colombia has been pulled alive from the River Thames in London, according to reports.

On Tuesday, Dec. 16, shortly after 7 a.m. local time, Zulma Guzman Castro was rescued from the water near Battersea Bridge, according to multiple U.K. outlets including The Telegraph and The Times.

Castro is the main suspect in the deaths of two minors in Bogotá, per Colombian outlet El Tiempo. The girls died in April after allegedly ingesting raspberries contaminated with thallium, a highly dangerous and odorless metal, the publication reported.

The victims have been identified as Ines de Bedout, 14, and Emilia Forero, 13, according to The Telegraph and The Times. The outlets noted that the chocolate-covered fruit had been delivered on April 3 of this year, and the girls died four days later.

Interpol previously issued a red notice for Castro’s arrest, but it has since been rescinded, per The Telegraph and The Times.

Without naming the suspect, a spokesperson for the Metropolitan Police said in a statement to PEOPLE on Thursday, Dec. 18, that “Police were called at 06:45hrs on Tuesday, 16 December to reports of a woman in distress on Battersea Bridge.”

“The Met’s Marine Policing Unit recovered a woman in her 50s from the water at 07.14hrs and she was taken to hospital, where her injuries have since been deemed not life-threatening or life-changing,” they added.

According to Colombian outlet El Nuevo Siglo, the Colombian ambassador to the U.K., Laura Sarabia, confirmed that Castro, who is a businesswoman, was currently being treated in a London hospital. She said that, under British law, authorities have to wait until Castro is discharged from the hospital before they can proceed with a formal arrest, per the publication.

The investigation has suggested that Castro, who previously appeared on Shark Tank Colombia, had allegedly been intending to harm her former lover Juan de Bedout with the raspberries, per local outlet Semana. The outlet added that Castro had previously denied being behind the murders.

Juan is the father of Ines, and Castro is accused of killing her and Forero in an alleged act of vengeance after the romance failed, The Telegraph reported, citing local outlets. The paper added that Castro left Colombia on April 13, before flying to Argentina, Brazil, and Spain.

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It’s thought Castro arrived in the U.K. on Nov. 11, according to The Sun. The outlet stated that Colombian authorities had made a request to the U.K. for her capture, and that a warrant was issued by Westminster Magistrates Court for her arrest earlier this week.

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According to The Telegraph, a further girl suffered life-changing injuries after ingesting the poison, and the 21-year-old brother of one of the victims was also hospitalized following the incident.

Pedro Forero, the father of Emilia, paid tribute to his daughter on social media, per The Times.

“Daughter, you will always be the greatest love I as a father can ever feel. There is no girlfriend or wife that can generate the love I had when I had you, and with this love I will go until the last day of my life,” he wrote in a Facebook post in August, to mark what would have been her 14th birthday.  

“I love you and I will love you for the rest of my life. I cry for the stories we won’t be able to live. I appreciate who you were and what you taught me. You were and will be the cutest thing I had in my life,” he added.

Interpol, the U.K.’s National Crime Agency and the Colombian Ambassador to the U.K. didn’t immediately respond when contacted by PEOPLE for additional information.