Nine-year-old raped, killed in UP

Lucknow April 20 (IANS) Less than a week after an eight-year-old was lured from a wedding function and raped and then murdered in Uttar Pradesh s Etah district a nine-year-old was raped and killed in the district the same way on Friday police said.

The accused is a boy who was part of the cooking team hired for a pre-wedding ceremony in Kailtha village.

He lured the girl to a field behind the venue where he raped her and then strangled her as she tried to raise an alarm the police said.

The girl was taken to a hospital where she died an officer told IANS.

Police are looking for two other youths allegedly involved in the crime.

On Monday another girl went missing from a wedding she had gone to attend with her family in Etah. Her body was found the next morning in a field. A drunk youth found lying beside her was arrested on suspicion of raping and murdering her.

--IANS
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