France, June 5 -- A girl who has been named in the press only as Lyhanna went missing 29 May near the southwestern village of Fleurance after she was last seen getting into a man's car.

After days of combing the countryside, investigators found the body of a child wearing the same clothes as Lyhanna in an abandoned silo on Thursday. Formal identification is under way.

A 41-year-old father of two, whose daughter was a school friend of Lyhanna, has been detained as the key suspect.

Incomprehension has grown nationwide after it emerged the suspect had twice previously been formally accused of raping a child, but the investigations had either been dropped or stalled.

Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu cancelled a trip to the north of the co...