Indian Macabre

Indian forensic experts are seeking DNA tests to establish the suspected rape of some 21 people in the country's most macabre serial killings in decades. Officially 21 people, mostly children, were murdered over a period of three years in a stylish bungalow in the northern Indian village of Nithari, but media reports say the toll could exceed 40. House-owner Moninder Singh Pandher and his servant Surender Koli were arrested in December, with Koli also confessing raping his victims and having sex with their bodies. Koli, according to the police, has also confessed trying to eat human organs extracted from the crudely-dissected bodies of the victims. Police say Koli lured children from nearby Nithari, just outside New Delhi, to his master's home, where they were assaulted by both and then cut with "butcher-like precision". Most of the human remains have been found in sewage drains around the house and in the adjacent Noida, an affluent Delhi satellite township of the north Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.