in southwestern China A man named Yang Qingpei, confessed to murdering his parents and 17 neighbours after returning to his hometown village of Yema in China's mountainous Yunnan Province and asking them for money, Xinhua news agency cited local police as saying.
Yang, who was born in 1989, was arrested in the provincial capital of Kunming, some 200 kilometres away, after 33 hours of “arduous investigation”,
Earlier reports showed the villagers were found dead at their homes on Thursday morning.
A list with the victims' names circulating online showed they included 11 males and eight females, with the youngest a three-year-old girl and the oldest 72.
Four names were of minors under 18.
