Udaipur, May 29 -- A 12-year-old girl was killed and her mother was injured after an unidentified man attacked them with a sharp-edged weapon in a village in Rajasthan's Pratapgarh district on Thursday night.

"A 40-year-old woman was sleeping on a cot outside her house along with her 12-year-old daughter on Thursday night, when an unidentified person attacked both of them with a sharp weapon. The girl died in the attack, while the woman sustained serious injuries," Devgarh Station House Officer (SHO) Nagaji Ram said.

According to police officers, the woman's husband and son had gone to Rajsamand for work, while her 15-year-old elder daughter had stayed overnight at a relative's house in the neighbourhood. When she returned home on Frida...