India, Jan. 3 -- New Delhi

At least four people, including a 15-year-old boy and a property dealer from Haryana's Sonepat, were killed and two others were injured in four separate cases reported within a span of four and a half hours on Thursday, the first day of the New Year, police said on Friday. Of the four cases, three have been solved and the accused, including minors, have been held, police said.

The unsolved case is the murder of a property dealer, whose semi-burnt body was found inside a fenced house in agricultural fields at Lampur in Narela. Police were informed about it around Thursday midnight, and found the semi-burnt body with blood oozing out of the head, deputy commissioner of police (outer-north) Hareshwar Swami said....