New Delhi, July 24 -- A nine-year-old Nepali girl has been murdered at Shakarpur in New Delhi, India.

The local police in the Indian capital said Laxmi Chandara, who hailed from Budhiganga Village in Bajura district, was murdered after a rape attempt on Friday.

Laxmi had been living with her parents in a building run as a paying guest (PG) facility for the past nine months. Her father Dev Chandara and mother Laxmi worked for the PG facility operated by Basim Ahamad, better known as Sonu, a man from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

On Friday, when Dev returned from his duty, he found his daughter lying on the bed. It was when he tried to wake her up that he found her unconscious. Fearing the worst, he called his wife, who was working ...