Eleven bodies have been found in a house in India, 10 which were hanged from the ceiling and blindfolded.
The victims – four men, three women and four girls – were all from the same family and most of them lived in the home in the northern part of New Delhi, police said.
Officers were alerted by a members of the public on Sunday morning and are investigating whether the victims died by suicide or were killed.
There were no bullet marks on the bodies of the victims and there was no sign of forced entry into the house, police officer Vineet Kumar said.
"We're yet to reach any conclusion whatsoever," he added.
Ten bodies, blindfolded by cotton and pieces of cloth, were found hanging from an iron grill used as a ventilator in the courtyard of the home in the village of Burari. The body of a 70-year-old woman was lying on the floor of the house.
The family was living in the house for more than two decades, the Hindustan Times newspaper reported.
It said the house belonged to a businessman who ran a plywood shop and dairy.
The newspaper said that at about 8am on Sunday, a neighbour with whom the businessman used to go for morning walks went to see him and found the door of the house open and the 10 people, including the businessman, hanging.
He raised an alarm and people called the police.
New Dehli chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, who visited the scene, called the incident "tragic".
"Police are investigating, let's wait for their investigation to be over," he said.
Additional reporting by Press Association
