Unidentified assailants struck terror in Etah when they looted over half a dozen houses including that of a retired Sub-Inspector, brutally attacked the residents resulting into one death, before fleeing with the booty.
Surprisingly, the dacoits freely roamed in the district all through Tuesday night but the local police only turned up on Wednesday morning.
Reports said that the dacoits barged into the house of retired Sub-Inspector Shanker Pal in Sirsa tappo hamlet on late Tuesday night. They attacked the occupants before decamping with jewellery and cash worth `5,000. The miscreants later looted jewellery and cash from the house belonging to Sneh Kumari while they were asleep. The miscreants later slipped to adjoining Harisinghpur locality of Piluwa and entered into the house of one Rajeev. They brutally assaulted the family members and looted cash and other valuables before entering into neighbouring house owned by Veer Raj.
When Veer Raj and family members resisted the bid, the miscreants brutally assaulted the family members in which Veer Raj along with his wife Sarvesh, daughter Neetu were critically injured while his mother-in-law Mandevi, died on the spot. The dacoits looted ornaments and `10,000 in cash before they once again slipped into another neighbouring locality identified as Nagla Pusa and Kakrawali, where they targeted the families in similar way, and robbed valuables.