Noida (UP): Badly shaken by the ghoulish serial killings of children and women in the area, several families living in Nithari village, most of whom are migrants from other states, have moved out and more are leaving.

More than a dozen families have already left the locality and more plan to do so, fearing for their safety.

"At least ten families living in this lane have left and more are expected to leave," said Hari Sharma, who owns a grocery shop in the area.

"I will not stay here. I will go back to my earlier job in Andhra Pradesh. At least my family will be safe there," said Dil Bahadur Sahi, a housekeeping staff with a local call centre, whose wife Nanda Devi has gone missing.

For the time being, most of the migrant families' children, including the five children of Dil Bahadur, are all locked indoors fearing danger.