FOUR family members are dead after a relative went on a horrifying stabbing spree before lighting their house on fire, police have said.

A man in Queens near Elk Drive in Far Rockaway was reportedly killed by officers at around 5.10 am on Sunday after attacking several relatives.

Officials received a 911 call from a young girl who claimed her cousin was “killing her family members,” according to a statement from NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey, per New York Daily News.

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New York Police Department personnel arrived on the scene where the man reportedly wounded two officers before being shot and killed, cops said.

Maddrey noted that the man was visiting the family from the Bronx.

Patrick Hendry, president of the Police Benevolent Association, also said that the home had started on fire amid several stabbings from “a madman on a rampage.”

“This scene was chaos,” Hendry told the publication.

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