Servant confesses to 19 murders, necrophilia

AN INDIAN servant confessed to killing and sexually assaulting at least 19 children and women and stuffing their dismembered remains into a storm drain outside the house where he worked, officials said yesterday.

The killings in a well-to-do section of Noida, a New Delhi suburb, prompted outrage after relatives of the victims said police had ignored their complaints as up to 38 people went missing over two years.

Nearly all victims were from poor families working as servants in the area.