Kenyan police said a man they initially arrested on kidnapping charges confessed today to killing 19 people in three years.

KENYAN police have arrested three men who they suspect were involved in the murder of Co Limerick born missionary, Fr Jer Roche, who was attacked in his house in the Kericho region last Friday.

Kenyan police are a law unto themselves and often execute criminal suspects and other individuals with impunity, a UN expert said.

Kenyan police have killed and wounded dozens of protesters, an international human rights group said today, warning that the opposition call for mass rallies this week raises concerns of new clashes that could lead to more deaths and injuries.

Kenyan police are questioning three members of the same family in connection with the November 28 suicide attack at a coastal hotel that killed 11 Kenyans and three Israeli tourists, an independent television station and newspaper reported Sunday.