Hyderabad: Missing 12-year-old girl from Neredmet found dead in stream

Hyderabad: A 12-year-old girl who went missing on Thursday evening here at Kakatiya Nagar in Neredmet was found dead in a stream. The body was recovered from Banda cheruvu in the locality.

The girl was identified as Sumedha, a Class 5 student.

According to her parents, Kapuria went out of her home on a bicycle and did not return home. Perturbed over her daughter missing, the parents approached the police who registered a missing case and launched an investigation.

Meanwhile, local residents told the police that all the nalas in Deen Dayal Nagar are flooded with water after heavy rains. Later, the police noticed the girl's bicycle near a nala and alerted the officials of GHMC and rescue teams who have launched efforts to trace the girl.

Hours after the search operation, the officials found the girl's body. She is learned to have drowned after falling into nala. An investigation is underway.

The body was shifted to a hospital for post-mortem and later handed over to the parents.