Chaibasa (Jharkhand), May 15: A 15-year-old girl was raped, murdered and her body set on fire by unidentified persons at Kula village in West Singhbhum district, police said today.
In a gruesome incident, the half-burnt body of Rashmita Pradhan, a class nine student, was recovered from the first floor of a school in the village yesterday, they said.
According to the police, Pradhan, who was a resident of Chakradharpur, had come to her ancestral home in the village for summer vacation. She had gone out last afternoon to visit a friend.
Her family members searched for her when she did not return. They found the body after spotting blood stains in the campus, they added.
The post-mortem was conducted at a hospital here today.
–PTI