Salem (Tamil Nadu): A six-year-old girl was raped and killed by a teenage boy who hid her body in a large cooking vessel in his house near here, the police said.

The 16-year-old boy, a school dropout, has been arrested and remanded to custody in a government observation home on Monday, they said. The girl, a class II student of Thelunganur off nearby Mettur, went missing on July 2 evening after she went out to play and her father Raja, a fisherman, lodged a complaint with the police on Sunday. During the investigation, locals informed the  police that the girl was led away by a boy of the same area.