LUCKNOW: A seven-year-old girl student of class III was raped and dumped in the thickets near a Gurudwara in Aashiana late on Thursday evening. She found was found unconscious with blood oozing out from her body parts and was rushed to KGMU. Her condition was critical, doctors said.As per police, the victim lives with her parents in Kila Mohamadi village of Aashiana. Her father is a class III employee with Railways in Lucknow. The girl left her house to purchase toffee from a shop around 3:30 pm on Thursday. When she did not come back for long, her parents went out to search for her but could not find her anywhere. Apprehensive of untoward happening, they lodged a missing report at Aashiana police station.While the search was on, some local residents spotted the girl lying in an unconscious state in thickets near a gurudwara just behind the Aashiana police station. The police reached the spot and later the girl’s parents were also called there. After they identified her, the police rushed her to Lok Bandhu Hospital for treatment from where she was referred to KGMU.Circle Officer, Cantt, Avanish Mishra told TOI that the girl had suffered serious injuries on her private part which indicates she was sexually assaulted before being dumped near the gurdwara in the evening.“The place where from she was recovered is far away from her house and it was not possible for a girl of this age to reach there. It seemed that someone picked her from way," he said.