India: Family burned to death in feud

Thirteen members of a family, including four children, were burned to death in southern India after a rival family faction locked them into a house and set it on fire early today in an apparent family feud, police said.

A bitter feud had been festering between two groups of a large family in Polkampally, a village in Mahbubnagar district of Andhra Pradesh state, a police official said.