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NOWSHERA: One of the two men accused of raping and murdering a seven-year-old girl on Tuesday confessed to his crime in a local court before both were sent on a judicial remand.



The men were presented in the court of the local civil judge-cum-judicial magistrate for trying to drown and killing the minor girl after raping her earlier. One of the suspects confessed while the other pleaded not guilty; the court sent both to jail on judicial remand.

The two accused men had been caught red-handed late last week in the city's Ziarat Kaka Sahib area as they tried to drown and killed a seven-year-old girl after allegedly raping her earlier, police had said.

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The deceased's paternal uncle told police while registering the first information report (FIR) that she had gone to madrassa a day prior but never returned home. They subsequently started a search for the minor girl and, at nighttime, discovered two men strangling her while attempting to drown her in a water tank.



The two threw her in the tank and made a run for it as soon as they realised they had been discovered, he added. She had already passed away by the time she was retrieved.

Residents of the area alleged that the two men had first sexually abused the girl then brutally murdered her. Authorities arrested the men after the residents handed them over.