6-year-old raped, killed by teenager in Salem district

A six-year-old girl was raped and murdered allegedly by a teenager in Salem district on Sunday evening. Police found the body in an aluminium vessel in the pooja room of his house in Thelunganur village near Mettur.

According to police, the girl, daughter of a fisherman and a Class II student of a Government school, was walking on the street when the 17-year-old boy, a school dropout, lured her with sweets and sexually assaulted her in his house. Fearing that she might tell her parents about it, the boy allegedly strangled her to death.

“He also inflicted injuries on her cheeks and stomach using a blade,” said a police officer.