LEGAZPI CITY, Philippines—An Indian national couple and their nine-year-old daughter were killed by three unidentified men inside their rented home in Canaman town, Camarines Sur Wednesday morning, police said Thursday.

A report from Camp Simeon Ola here said the men, armed with a .45 cal. pistol and a hand grenade, forcibly entered the victims’ house in Fernando Compound, in the village of Haring at around 9 a.m.

The fatalities were identified as Parajamit Grewal, his wife Fami Cor Grewal and their daughter Harsimran Kaur.

The family’s helper, Susan Chavez of Pasacao town, told police that the men were looking for her employer's handgun and shabu (methamphetamine hydrochloride).

She said she was rendered unconscious when the assailants punched her in the face and abdomen. When she came to, she found her employers in the comfort room, with injuries.

The police report said the victims were brought to the Mother Seton Hospital in Naga City but were all declared dead on arrival.