Hasnin Anwar Warekar slit
the throats of 14 members of his family, including seven children, with a
butcher's knife in India during a family party then hanged himself police said.
Warekar's 21-year-old
sister was the only survivor of the attack in Thane, 20 miles from the city of
Mumbai, in the early hours of Sunday morning.
She was taken to hospital
after neighbours heard her screaming for help.
Police broke open the front
door and found the bodies.
Sky's India reporter
Neville Lazarus said the dead included Warekar's wife, children, parents and
siblings.
He said the family were
"well-to-do" and news of the murders had shocked residents.
Thane police spokesman
Gajanan Laxman Kabdule said Warekar's sister is in "deep trauma" and
officers have not yet been able to speak to her.
He said the motive for the
murders is "still sketchy".
Warekar attacked his family
after lacing their food with sedatives, say local reports.
"Prima facie evidence
suggests that the accused bolted all the doors of the house and murdered his
family while they were asleep, with a knife that we found near his body,"
Ashutosh Dumbre, joint commissioner of Thane police, told reporters.
He could not confirm
whether the victims had been sedated, saying investigators were awaiting
medical results.
According to the Press
Trust of India news agency, the killings were sparked by a property dispute.
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