India, July 7 -- A mob in eastern Bihar's Purnia district hacked five members of a family, including three women and burnt them on Sunday evening over accusations that one of the five, a 45-year-old woman, practised witchcraft, police said.

Police said the incident took place late in a remote Tetgama hamlet under the district's Muffasil police station on Sunday evening.

Police said the deceased have been identified as Babu Lal Oraon (50), his mother Kanto Devi (70), wife Sita Devi (45), son Manjit Kumar (25) and daughter-in-law Rani Devi (22).

Babu Lal's younger son, a 16-year-old, managed to escape and later gave a statement to the police on the crime.

The teenager told the police that his mother, Sita Devi, was the primary target of...