HYDERABAD, India, 8 January 2007 — Police investigating the sexual murders of two laborers have stumbled on India’s second serial killing case in the space of a few days, digging up nine bodies so far in the southern city of Hyderabad.
Police Commissioner S. Prabhakar Reddy told Arab News yesterday that the police would take a couple of more days to crack the case. Some suspects are being interrogated to establish their role in the killings.
The killings follow the discovery of skulls from 17 people, mostly children, at a house near New Delhi, in another murder drama that has transfixed India. Police had arrested two men after two laborers in Hyderabad, a center for the tech sector, were sodomized and their heads smashed with a boulder.
The arrested men told interrogators they had sodomized or raped and killed 13 people, including two women.
The arrested men appeared to belong to a gang that lured laborers and street dwellers with liquor and then sexually abused them before crushing their heads to kill them, Reddy said.
The murders have rattled residents of Hyderabad, which has offices for a number of the top names in information technology, including Microsoft, IBM, Dell, Oracle and Google.
