According to police, a man has been arrested after more than ten bodies were found buried in a hole in his kitchen in Kigali, Rwanda.
Police said the 34-year-old suspected serial killer had lured his victims from bars to his rented home in a Kigali suburb.
According to AFP, the number of victims so far was 14.
Rwanda Investigation Bureau (RIB) spokesman Thierry Murangira declined to confirm a figure, saying that "forensic investigations will determine the final number."
According to him, who was mentioned by local media, the suspect was previously detained in July on suspicion of robbery and rape, among other offenses but was released on bond owing to a lack of evidence.
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But as inquiries went on, he was apprehended once more on Tuesday, and when his house was inspected, the remains that had been deposited in a pit he had dug in his kitchen were found there.
"The suspect confessed that he learned to kill from watching famous serial killers. He dissolved some of his victims in acid. He would study his victims before stalking them and usually went for those that are most likely not to have close family or friends to look out for them," the RIB source said.
Murangira said the suspect confessed during interrogation to the killings and that preliminary investigations found the victims were male and female.
"He operated by luring his victims, mostly prostitutes, to his home where he would rob them of their phones and belongings and then strangled them to death and buried them in a hole dug in the kitchen of his rented house," he added.
