In a brutal killing, four members of family which included a women and her three children, were hacked to death under mysterious circumstances in Bagpat sometime on late Friday night. A case has been registered and efforts were on to find out the motive behind the killing.
Reports said that one Ilyas, a resident of Chuhalda hamlet of Kotwali area in Bagpat, lodged a report with the local police that his wife Naseema (35), and his three children - Nazim (6), Nazia (4) and Akram (3) were in the house when he left them on Friday evening. He claimed that when he returned on early Saturday morning, he found the door of his house lying wide open and when he entered the house, he was shocked to find his entire family lying in pool of blood. He said that some unknown person entered into his house and brutally hacked all the family members to death. local police who sent the bodies for post-mortem examination claimed to be working on all the possible motives including some family dispute, to reach out to the criminals.
Meanwhile half a dozen persons were feared drowned as a boat in which they were travelling capsized in the river Ganga at Mirjapur on Saturday morning. According to reports, a boat, carrying 13 pilgrims to Sheetla Mata dham, capsized in Aladpura area under Chunar police station area on Mirjapur. While seven pilgrims were rescued by the locals, the others were feared drowned. The victims included five women and a child.