India, May 6 -- A 35-year-old man accused of killing his wife and four children in Wazirpur village earlier this week was arrested from a city hospital after undergoing treatment for self-inflicted injuries, police said on Tuesday.

The accused, a native of Uttar Pradesh's Moradabad, had attempted to die by suicide on May 2. An FIR was registered under Section 103(1) (murder) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita at Sector-10A police station on the same day.

Police said he was discharged from hospital on Monday and immediately taken into custody. He has since been produced before a court and remanded to police custody for questioning.

According to investigators, the bodies of his 31-year-old wife and their four children-three daughters and a s...