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Hyderabad, India
Disclaimer: Some readers may find the story disturbing. Discretion is advised.
In a gruesome incident, three minor school boys gang-raped their eight-year-old female schoolmate and then killed her in the Nanyala district of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, according to the police.
The boys were aged between 12 and 13 and were seniors of the victim in the school. The police detained the three boys after the girl's father reported that she had been missing on Sunday (July 7).
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The accused teenagers informed the police that they had thrown the girl's dead body in an irrigation canal. The incident took place in Muchumarri, which is more than 300 kilometres from Amaravati. The police have not yet recovered the body of the girl.
Here's how the school horror came to light
On Sunday (July 7), the Class 3 student went missing after which his father filed a missing complaint regarding it at the local police station.
He informed the police the girl was last seen playing at Muchumarri Park after which she did not return home.
A search operation was launched by the police personnel and the local residents were questioned regarding the missing girl. However, the police were not able to find her.
The police also deployed sniffer dogs leading them to the three minor boys. Amongst the boys, two were Class 6 students, aged 12, and one was in Class 7, aged 13.
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The three boys and the girl attended the same school. When the police questioned the boys, they admitted to have raped and killed the girl.
The accused said that they saw the girl playing in the park and took her to an isolated area on the pretext of showing her a new playground, where they took turns to rape her.
Fearing that the girl might tell her parents about the crime, they killed her and dumped her body in the nearby canal, admitted the boys to the police.
(With input from agencies)