India, Nov. 9 -- A four-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped while she was sleeping beside her grandmother and sexually assaulted in West Bengal's Hooghly district, near Kolkata.

The incident reportedly took place on Friday when the child was asleep beside her grandmother at a railway shed in Tarakeshwar. Officials said she was found lying unconscious with injury marks near a drain in the area on Saturday afternoon, news agency PTI reported.

Police have registered an FIR under relevant sections of the law, including the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act. Efforts are underway to identify and nab the accused.

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