BAREILLY: A body of a five-year-old boy was found at a closed brick kiln in Wajidpura village under
Bhojpura area of
Moradabad on Thursday evening. The body - found in a semi-nude condition - was attacked with a sharp object. Police have sent the body for post-mortem.
According to police, the boy who was playing outside his house on Thursday afternoon, and then went missing.
His family with other villages started looking for him. Later, the villagers found his body at a closed brick kiln. It is suspected that the boy was strangled to death after being attacked with a sharp object. On receiving information, a police team along with forensic unit went to the site and collected the samples from the scene.
Station house officer Bhojpura police station said, “On the complaint of deceased’s father, an FIR has been registered for murder against unidentified person.”