PTI, NEW DELHI: Eight of the 11 members of a family found dead in their home in north Delhi’s Burari locality showed no signs of struggle and died as a result of hanging, officials said today after the post-mortem of all the victims was completed.
While the preliminary report of eight victims is ready, the autopsy details of three are awaited.
Ten of the 11 members of the Bhatia family were found hanging from an iron-mesh in the ceiling yesterday, while the body of 77-year-old Narayan Devi, the head of the family, was lying on the floor in another room of the house.
“The post-mortem of all the 11 bodies has been carried out. Our team finished the process by 3 pm. Two boards were formed to expedite the post-mortem. The final report has been handed to the police,” LNJP Hospital Medical Superintendent J C Passey told PTI.
He said the exercise began yesterday and was carried out in two shifts — 6 pm to 12 midnight and 9 am to 3 pm today.
The dead included Narayan Devi’s two sons and their families as well as two 15-year-old boys.
