SASARAM, Dec. 12 -- A Class 6 student -- a 12-year-old girl -- was brutally gang-raped and killed in a village under Nasriganj police station limits of Rohtas district late on Thursday evening, police said. Police suspect that some Class 9 and 10 students of her school and a middle-aged man are prime suspects.

According to locals and police officers, the girl had left for a village coaching centre, some 200 meters from her home, at 5pm. After finishing her coaching at 7pm, she went to pick up her younger brother from another coaching.

She was kidnapped on the way. "Later, villagers found her body lying in a pool of blood in a narrow lane at 7.45pm and informed the family. Her clothes were torn and drenched in blood. There were teeth and...