Photos: 'God told me to cut off children’s heads…then I would be made king'- Drissa Coulibaly detained in Abidjan

Decapitated corpses have turned up in the Ivory Coast after a wave of child murders - with one attacker calmly telling police that God had told him 'to cut off children's heads ... and then I would be made king.'

More than 20 children have vanished in the past few months, with their bodies found mutilated.

But one suspected killer was caught after he tried to attack two boys while they were fetching water from a well in in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan, on January 25.  

Those gathered around the well watched in horror as Cedric, 14, and Souleymane, 10, were attacked by Drissa Coulibaly with a machete. 

Souleymane was in shock, but he survived, unlike many victims of a wave of child murders in the Ivory Coast. 

He said: 'The man came out with a machete. I fell down. He started to hack at me.'  
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Drissa Coulibaly, left, and right, with his machete, was detained in Abidjan after attacking two boys at a well. He told police that God had told him 'to cut off children's heads ... and then I would be made king'

Women fetch water from a well near the site where two boys were attacked, in Yopougon, a suburb of Abidjan

Cedric's mother Danielle Gueu said: 'He's a very confident man. Not a madman. He is used to doing this'

Police say at least 20 children have disappeared in the last few months and many of their corpses were mutilated or decapitated