Meerut: Property dispute might be the motive behind the killings of six persons, three of them minors, whose bodies were found with their throats slit here, police said today.

The bodies of 40-year-old Rukhsana and a man identified as Saad were found in Partapur area here while her four children identified as Rimsa (21) along with a 12-year-old boy and two children aged 8 were found dead in a house with their throats slit in Lisarhi area yesterday, SP (City) Om Prakash said.