India, Dec. 24 -- A 10-year-old girl who left home to go to school was raped and murdered in Odisha's Bhadrak on December 24, leading angry villagers in the district's Chandbali area to stage a 17-hour-long road blockade on Wednesday and finally demolish the house of one of the accused.

Police said the main accused, Satyabrata Das, was arrested on Wednesday morning from his in-laws' residence in Jagatsinghpur district, where he had been hiding.

The girl went missing on Tuesday, sometime after leaving home for school. When she did not return, her family and other villagers set out to look for her. At 8 pm, locals found her blood-soaked body in a dense forested area near the Baligaon panchayat office, triggering tension in the region.

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