India, April 21 -- Five days after an 11-year-old boy went missing in a village of Odisha's Puri district, the police recovered his rotting corpse from a septic tank on Sunday evening.

The body was recovered from the septic tank of a person in Ratanpur village of Puri. The boy's uncle, Prabhakar Sahoo, confessed to the crime after several days of interrogation. He has been arrested and charged with murder, though he has not revealed the motive till now.

Police officials of Delanga station said the 11-year-old was last seen playing outside his house on April 16 evening. Family members said the boy had returned home at 6 pm after dropping his eight-year-old sister at her tutor's residence in the same village.

However, he went missing by ...