Two close relatives of former Uttar Pradesh minister Amarmani Tripathi, a prime accused in poetess Madhumita Shukla's murder case, were stabbed to death by unidentified assailants in Gorakhpur on Tuesday night.

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Tripathi's aunt Kamala Devi and her husband Yashodanand Mishra were asleep when they were attacked.

When their daughter Annu raised an alarm, the assailants escaped after locking her in a room, a senior police officer said.

Kamala Devi was former UP minister Shyam Narayan Tewari's sister.

Mishra was a retired workshop superintendent of the Madan Mohan Malaviya Engineering College in Gorakhpur.

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