Lucknow, Nov. 7 -- An eight-year-old girl was allegedly raped and murdered after a man known to her family lured her out of her house on the pretext of treating her to golgappas in Bulandshahr district on Friday, police said.

The accused allegedly took her to an isolated plot around 500 metres from her home, sexually assaulted her and then struck her on the head with an iron rod, killing her before fleeing.

The child went missing on Friday afternoon. When she failed to return home, her family members began searching for her and informed the police. Police launched an immediate search operation after receiving information about her disappearance, and her body was recovered around 2am on Saturday, police said. It bore injury marks on the ...