Suspected serial killer arrested after human body parts found in river

An Administration Police officer retrieves some of the body parts of a woman found in River Charachani in Miruka, Nyamira County, Monday. The dismembered parts were found in the stream by swimming children. [Photo: Stanley Ongwae/standard]

Nyamira, Kenya: A man suspected to be a serial killer is being held at Nyamira police station after parts of the body of a woman believed to be his wife were retrieved from a river.

The whereabouts of the couple's four-year-old daughter is not known, with the residents allaying fears that she may have also been killed and her body dumped somewhere.