A mother has been arrested amid fears she cooked her 2-year-old daughter alive as part of a suicide attempt.

The 27-year-old, who is reported to be of African descent & has not been named, was arrested in the town of Zemst, north of Brussels, Sunday evening.

When police arrived they discovered the woman cooking the body of her daughter on a charcoal grill, with the remains almost completely burned.

Officers are now investigating if she cooked the girl alive or if she killed the child then tried to burn her remains, HLN reports.

Because of the mother's physical & mental state, she was not immediately interviewed by investigators.

He said that if the mother did in fact say that she started the fire because only the soul of cremated bodies enter heaven, could be a sign of psychiatric problems.