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Suspected child killers caught in India

Two suspected serial killers arrested near New Delhi may have murdered at least 15 children, based on skeletal remains found, police said yesterday, in a case that has shocked India.

"Fifteen skulls have been recovered," police official R.K.S. Rathore said. "But the search is still going on."

The murders which came to light on Friday in Noida, a satellite city of New Delhi and a hub for global software giants, were front-page news in Indian newspapers.

As many as 40 children disappeared in the area over the past two years, media reports said.

"The Butcher of Noida caught," said the Hindustan Times in a banner headline.

Rathore told reporters that the domestic helper charged with rape, murder and concealment appeared to be a "mentally ill" man who confessed to police he had lured six children with candies and toys and killed them.

"He says he kidnapped the children for sex," Rathore said.

The servant's employer who sells earth-moving equipment was also later arrested in connection with the grisly discovery.

The employer was also charged with rape, murder and concealment, said Rathore.

Reports said the victims, the children of laborers living in shanty clusters near the house where the men lived, were sexually abused.
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