Indian police find 11 bodies of the same family at home in New Delhi, suggest "spiritual or mystical practices"

NEW DELHI – Police in the Indian capital said they found 11 bodies in a house under mysterious circumstances on Sunday, 10 of which were blindfolded and hanging. The victims all belonged to the same family and most lived in the house where they were found in the village of Burari, in northern New Delhi, police officer Vineet Kumar

said. "Coincidentally, these notes have a strong similarity to how the mouth, eyes, etc. of the deceased were related and recorded," the statement said.

Kumar said the police began his investigation after receiving a call Sunday morning that some "family members have committed suicide."

But he said that no suicide note was found, and that the police were investigating whether the victims – a 77-year-old woman, her two sons and their wives, a girl and five grandchildren – died by suicide or were killed.

There was no bullet mark on the bodies of the victims and there was no sign of forced entry into the house, Kumar said. "Police said Sunday in its statement that a murder case had been registered, although one police official said that investigations were ongoing on murder and suicide."

The statement stated that the house had not been ransacked and that no valuable items had been found.

Ten bodies, bandaged with cotton and pieces of cloth, were found hanging on an iron gate in the yard of the house, while the body of the 77-year-old woman was lying on the floor of the house , said the police chief, who spoke under cover of anonymity because he was not allowed to talk to reporters.

home for more than two decades, the Hindustan Times reported. He stated that the house belonged to a businessman who ran a plywood store and a dairy.

The newspaper stated that around 8 o'clock in the morning, a neighbor with whom the businessman was going to walk in the morning the open house and the 10 people, including the man of Business, suspended. He raised an alarm and people called the police.

Arjun Thukral, a relative of the family who lives in the same neighborhood, said that he ran home to the victims as news spread

Hanging bodies, stools lying around, and my wife's aunt lying on the floor next to the bed. I could not stand watching anymore, "he says.

Thukral asked if the family was dead by suicide

can kill his own son … How could a mother kill her own children? not think that they have committed suicide.It's about murders. "

New Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, who visited the scene, called the" tragic "incident .

"The police are investigating … let's wait until their investigation is over," he said.

In a video posted on Twitter by Kejriwal's ruling party, neighbors Kejriwal is told that the family was busy preparing for the wedding.

A neighbor of the family said that they could not Ave died by suicide, reported New Delhi television. The neighbor said that he spoke to one of the victims on Saturday night and found no signs of stress, according to the report.

Indian television stations broadcast interviews with neighbors saying that the family had no discord between them. Rajesh Khurana official told reporters that all angles were under study. "We can not exclude anything," he said.