Ayodhya (UP), Jan 25 (PTI) A 20-year-old man was arrested here for allegedly raping and killing three elderly women in December last year, police said on Wednesday.

The accused, Amarendra, was arrested for killing a 60-year-old woman of Ayodhya's Khusheti village, police said.

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Additional SP, Ayodhya, Atul Kumar Sonkar, told PTI that Amarendra, a resident of Asandhara area of Barabanki district, had been arrested Tuesday night.

During interrogation, Amarendra confessed to have raped and killed two more women in Barabanki in December.

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According to police, his first victim was a 60-year-old woman from Khusheti, who had left her home on December 5, 2022. When she did not return till late evening, her family filed a missing person complaint with police.

Police found her naked body in a field the very next day. The post mortem revealed that she was raped and strangled.

Police said Amarendra also killed a 62-year-old woman on December 17 and a 55-year-old woman on December 29 in Ibrahimabad and Tatara village of Barabanki.

"We are working with police from nearby districts to find out about more such similar incidents," Sonkar said.

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