Alleged family feud reportedly forced a man to brutally killed 10 of his family members including kids and left two others critically injured in Amethi. The accused later also ended his own life by hanging himself. local police and senior police officers who rushed to the spot had shifted the two injured to district hospitals and all the 11 bodies were sent to mortuary for autopsy test.
It may be mentioned that except for the accused who committed suicide, all the other victims were female members of the family. A case has been registered in this regard and further investigations are on in the matter.
Reports said that one Jamaludeen (45), a resident of Mohana Paschim locality of Bazar Shukla in Amethi, was living with a dozen other female family members which included his own family, besides family members of his brother Shahshudeen (already dead) and Raees (missing under mysterious circumstances for last several years). He was running a small Battery mechanic shop in the same locality to meet out family expenses.
According to his neighbor, Jamaludeen, seems to have given some intoxicants mixed with eatables to all the family members following which they turned unconscious, late on Tuesday night.
later he brutally attacked them with sharp edged weapons to kill them. Taking all the 12 as dead, Jamaludeen went outside and hanged himself with a ceiling to end his life. The neighbors who noticed the incident only on Wednesday morning, called the police. The cops rushed and found that two of the family members were still alive so they shifted them to hospital.
They claimed that Afreen Banu (18), Mariyam Banu (8), Sania Banu (5), Ujma Banu (2), all daughters of Jamaludeen, Smt Hussain Banu (32), wife of Shamshudeen, and his daughters Rubina Banu (16), Thesin Banu (9), along with Raees’s wife Tabassum Banu (35), and his two daughters Nigar Fatima (6) and Mahak Banu (7), all died in the attack while Jamaludeen’s wife Tabassum and his daughter Afsar, were found in critically injured state. They both were still fighting for their lives in district hospital.