India, July 27 -- A 14-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly raping and strangling a five-year-old girl to death on Saturday night near a village under the Dobhi police station area. This marks the fourth such incident involving minors in Gaya district within the past four days, police said.

The girl's parents had gone to an adjacent village for paddy plantation while she was playing outside the house. The accused allegedly lured her on the pretext of purchasing chocolates around 7 pm and took her to a nursery in the forest department near Piparghati market and raped her, police said.

The parents searched for her after they returned home. "They found the body with a towel wrapped around her neck in the nursery and informed the police ...