4-year-old found dead in U.P. with injuries on head

A 4-year-old girl was found dead in a field with injuries to her head in rural Shahjahanpur in Uttar Pradesh, police said on Tuesday. Her older cousin was found seriously injured at a place nearby. The two girls had been missing from their village under Kanth police station since Monday evening after they went to a madrasa to learn Urdu, said a senior officer. The girls were last seen bathing near a primary school in their village at around 3:30 pm, said S. Anand, Superintendent of Police, Shahjahanpur. The girls would return home from the madrasa usually by 6 pm. When they did not return, their families launched a search and found the younger girl’s body in a field in a village a kilometre away, said Mr. Anand.