Kidnapping suspect 'confessed to 19 killings'

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

Richard Katola, a top police official, said Philip Onyancha was arrested on Sunday after police tracked him down through a mobile phone that officers said he was using to send ransom demands to the family of a nine-year-old kidnap victim.

Police said Onyancha confessed to killing the boy and 18 other people.

Mr Katola said that Onyancha has led police to four locations in Nairobi where body parts of his alleged victims were recovered.

Onyancha allegedly told police he was planning to kill 100 people.