Police in India have recovered the half-burnt bodies of four children from an abandoned mill owned by a ruling party politician.
Police said the four corpses, found in Muktsar, about 210 kilometres southwest of Chandigarh, the twin capital of Punjab and Haryana states, could be those of three girls and a boy who were reported missing from a nearby village last November.
The unused rice mill belongs to senior Congress party leader Jagmeet Singh Brar, but he said there was no evidence so far to link the politician with the case.
Mr Brar said he had no knowledge about the bodies lying in his mill.
The discovery follows last month's find of bones of at least 17 people, mostly children, at a house near New Delhi. That discovery sparked criticism of a police force many Indians see as corrupt and ineffectual.