KASKI: A five year old girl has been found dead in Sabhagrihapath in Pokhara. Police have taken into custody a 14-year-old boy who has admitted to his crime, according to Superintendent of Police at the District Police Office, Kaski, Ashok Singh.

As per preliminary investigations, the boy has stated that he killed the five-year-old over a dispute on a toy that he owned. The deceased was a permanent resident of Birkot in Palpa and was currently residing with her mother in Pokhara. The killer, an orphan, lived and worked at a nearby garage.

SP Singh informed that the girl who had gone missing on Sunday had been found dead at around 10 pm on the same day, at an empty land at Sabhagrihapath, in a sack, buried under stones and sand.

The girl's body has been sent for postmortem and further investigation into the case is underway, according to SP Singh.