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6 killed in N.India in suspected occult practice

Xinhua, July 17, 2015 Adjust font size:

At least five young people were brutally hacked to death in their house in the northwest Indian state of Punjab Thursday, while the suspected killer was also found killed in what police suspected an occult practice, said local media.

The killings took place in Punjab's Moga district in which the suspected killer, a Sikh religious preacher, too was also found dead under mysterious circumstances, said Indo-Asian News Service.

Police said they were investigating various angles, including tantric activity, behind the crime.

The victims, including two women and a minor boy, were aged between 15 and 23 years.

Police officials investigating the incident said the religious practitioner or locally called "granthi" had gone to the house for some religious ceremony on Wednesday night, and he could have hacked them to death with a sharp-edged weapon.

Police were also suspecting that the granthi was indulging in some tantric activity which went awry and left six people dead. Endi