Couple 'kill seven family members who objected to marriage'

Police in India have arrested a young couple for allegedly killing seven family members by poisoning and strangling them for objecting to a same-clan marriage.

Anil Kumar Rao, senior superintendent of police, told television news channel CNN-IBN today that the arrests were made after the lovers confessed to their crime committed in Kabool Pur, a village nearly 60 miles north west of the Indian capital, New Delhi.