AMETHI, JAN 4 (UNI)- Bodies lay in a room after eleven members of a family murdered in Amethi district in Uttar Pradesh on Tuesday night. UNI PHOTO-8U

Amethi/ UP

All 11 members of a family, including six children, were murdered in Mohan Bazar area under Shukl Bazar police station in this Uttar Pradesh district, Tuesday night.

Police here today said the bodies were recovered Wednesda morning. One member of the family was critically injured in the attack and was admitted to the hospital.

While all the deceased were found murdered by a sharp-edged weapon, but the family head Jamaluddin was found hanging from the ceiling.

According to preliminary investigation, it was said that Jamaluddin first poisoned and brutally killed the other family members and then, he committed suicide.