Five-year-old girl killed in suspected human sacrifice in Assam, tantric arrested
The Hindu
The girl's parents have been interrogated and 10 people including her father detained for further questioning.
A five-year-old girl has been found murdered in Assam's Charaideo district in a suspected case of human sacrifice and an occult practitioner arrested, police said on Wednesday. The girl, youngest of five siblings, was kidnapped from her house in a tea estate by unidentified people while she was asleep on Monday night and her eldest sister filed a missing complaint with Sefrai police station on Tuesday. The child's body was recovered from Singlu river on Tuesday night and red cloth with ashes along with other materials used in tantric rituals were found on the riverbank, indicating that this could be a case of human sacrifice, a senior officer said, adding her body has been sent for post-mortem examination.More Related News
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