Tirupati: An eight-year-old girl was found dead in the Nelaballi forest area of Tirupati District on Wednesday, police said.
The deceased was a native of Patna in Bihar who used to work at a nearby rice mill.
Police were informed by the residents who were informed by a goat herder in the forest area about the body. The girl's body has been sent to Naidupeta Hospital for an autopsy, police added.
Police Suspect Murder
A team of 40 members has been working at Dhanya Lakshmi Rice Mill in Doravarisathram village for the last two months. It is suspected that a co-worker took the child by offering her biscuits, and she was assaulted, killed, and left 500 metres from the rice mill, an official said.
In yet another incident of crime against minors, a 13-year-old Dalit girl was found murdered in a village under Chebrolu mandal in Guntur district on Monday night.
Police said the girl, who was a class 7 student at the local government school, was found lifeless under mysterious circumstances in the house of a man of the same village.
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