India, July 22 -- A 15-year-old school girl returning home from a friend's birthday party in south Odisha's Malkangiri was abducted by three men and raped on Sunday evening, police said on Tuesday.

The traumatised girl was trying to come back home when a truck driver picked her up on Malkangiri-Jeypore highway at Bijaghati and sexually assaulted her. She was eventually rescued by some local people and filed a police complaint.

The four suspects, including the truck driver, have been arrested, police said on Tuesday.

The girl, a resident of Malkangiri Sadar block, had gone to attend a birthday party of her friend. While she was coming back home late on Sunday, she was abducted by three individuals and taken to a place 10 to 15 kilometre...