The deceased includes two women, a two-year-old girl and three boys.

A K Jain, ADG of Railways, said: “The evidences collected from the spot indicates that it is a case of murder, as signs of the bodies being dragged to the railway tracks from the nearby field is evident.”

“It also establishes that the victims were murdered first and then the bodies were thrown on the tracks to mislead the investigators. Since the bodies are mutilated badly, the exact cause behind the death is yet to be established,” added Jain.

“Hundreds of locals from nearby areas had gathered at the spot but none of them could identify the victims,” he said.

“The spot is about two-and-half kilometres away from the Bihar border. We have informed our counterparts at the bordering police stations about the killings and have sought their help,” he added.

The Gorakhpur Railways Superintendent of Police (SP), Jitendra Pratap Singh, said the locals informed the local police about bodies lying on the railway track.

According to Singh, the distance between the field and the tracks is around 50 metres. The police have recovered a pair of slippers, shawls, ear-rings and two empty bottles of liquor.

4 of family charred

Four members of a family including three teenagers were charred to death when their house caught fire in Jagdishpur on Saturday afternoon.

According to police, the victims got trapped

when the thatched roof caved in. The deceased have been identified as Amtul Nisha (47) and her three children Tarannum (16), Salma Bano (12) and Saima Bano (2).