A man fired five members of a family killing one man and seriously wounding two women.
Additional Superintendent of Police (rural) Shailendra Kumar said the incident took place around Monday midnight in Nevrhiya Police Station area.
According to the information received, the incident was fallout of an old enmity.
Around midnight on Monday, when the family went to sleep, their neighbour, Akash alias Raju, barged in with a revolver and fired at a Rajbali,” police said.
They said that after injuring the 65-year-old man, he opened fire on Shanti Devi (60), Bimala Devi (40) and Gaurav (13), who came out of their house on hearing the commotion.
He then went on to hit Ravindra Yadav, 42 and ran away, police said.
The matter is being investigated, the ASP said.