A four-year-old girl was allegedly kidnapped and sexually assaulted by an unidentified accused in West Bengal’s Hooghly district Friday night. The girl was reportedly sleeping beside her grandmother on a cot under a mosquito net in a railway shed where her family had been seeking shelter.

The child was later reportedly found unclothed, bleeding, and with bite marks on her cheek near a drain, in a pool of blood. She was taken to a local hospital and subsequently referred to the Chandannagar hospital.

“While she was asleep, someone tore the mosquito net and kidnapped her. Later, we found her in a wounded condition,” the child’s grandmother reportedly said.

A senior officer from the Hooghly rural police confirmed the crime. A local police officer said that a case has been registered under

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