BAHRAICH/LUCKNOW: In a chilling incident, six charred bodies, including those of two children, were recovered from a house in Nindurpurwa village in Bahraich on Wednesday morning. Police said farmer Vijay Maurya (40) killed two village boys with a sharp-edged weapon before setting his wife and two young daughters ablaze along with himself inside a room locked from inside. According to officials, Maurya brought three village boys to his home on the pretext of sowing garlic, luring them with Rs 10 per kilo as wages. He later sent one boy away on an errand, while killing the other two — Suraj Yadav (14) and Sunny Verma (13) — by slitting their throats and chopping their fingers. Fearing exposure, Maurya confined his wife Dheeraj Kumari (35) and daughters Priyanshi (8) and Riyanshi ali

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