Sant Ravidas Nagar, September 05: Some unknown criminals killed five members of a family, including a two-year-old girl in Chaurhata village under Unjh police station of this Uttar Pradesh district late last night.
The assailants barged into the house of a small time vendor Gama Gupta and killed him, his wife, two daugeters and a woman by slitting their necks with sharp-edged weapons. They fled away after committing the crime.
Senior officers had rushed to the spot and a manhunt was launched, the police said.
The reason behind the mass murder could not be known immediately, while the probe was on, police added.
—Agencies