Deoria (UP), Oct 2: Six persons including five of a family were killed on Monday in violence over land in Fatehpur village of Rudrapur area here, police said.
The incident took place in the Lehda Tola locality in the morning, they said, adding that 14 people have been detained so far.
Two companies of the PAC have been deployed in the village, a senior official said.
Opposition Samajwadi Party and Congress attacked the Yogi Adityanath government over the incident and demanded a high-level probe into the matter.
Former district panchayat member Prem Yadav, 50, was attacked with sharp-edged weapons and killed by his rival Satyaprakash Dubey and his family when he went to his house, Special DG, Law and Order, Prashant Kumar said.
In retaliation soon after, Yadav’s supporters from Abhaipur attacked Dubey’s house and brutally killed Dubey and five of his family, including children.
Besides 54-year-old Dubey, his wife Kiran Dubey, 52, daughters Saloni, 18, and Nandani, 10, and son Gandhi, 15, were killed in the attack.Dubey’s 8-year-old son Anmol was injured in the attack and has been referred to BRD Medical College, Gorakhpur, where his condition was stated to be serious.The violence erupted out of a land dispute the two families were locked in.Two persons have been arrested in connection with the killings, Kumar said.
“The cause behind the incident is stated to be a longstanding land dispute between two families of the village. (PTI)
