HYDERABAD: A two-and-a-half-year-old girl, who disappeared two days ago, was found raped and murdered at a secluded place near the Borabanda railway station on Saturday.

Naked, mutilated and with more than 23 bruises all over, the body of Supriya was lying in thick bushes in the hilly Safdarnagar locality. A local who went to answer nature's call saw the body and alerted the victim's parents -- Veeraiah and Narsamma.

Confirming sexual assault, forensic doctors said the killer throttled and killed the girl by hitting her head against a rock. "The head suffered cracks all around and the right hand was almost fractured," they observed after performing autopsy at Gandhi morgue. Bleeding injuries on lips and scratches on the face suggested that the victim was tortured.

Supriya was the youngest of the labourer couple's three daughters. After the parents went out to earn their daily bread, the girl used to go to the local school along with her elder sisters -- Swapna, (4), and Sasirekha, (8). "Sasirekha would keep the two younger sisters by her side till the school was over," Kukatpally Inspector Ch. Radhakishan Rao said.

They used to take the mid-day meal offered at the school and pass time till evening. On Thursday the girls went to the school as usual but Supriya went missing after 4 p.m. The victim's parents and relatives had been searching the area for the past two days. "Since a lot of our relatives are in the area, we thought she might have gone to them, but never imagined this gory end," said the mother crying inconsolably.

Police received a tip-off that a youngster with long locks of hair was spotted carrying the girl on his arms on the day she went missing.

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