Locals burn house of man who murdered a girl, torched her body.

PESHAWAR -- The house of the accused who killed and later torched the body of a seven-year old girl near Peshawar was razed and set on fire by local angered people on Saturday just a day after his arrest and confession.

According to details, the accused was a relative and neighbour of deceased girl Rabia whose body had been found from a local graveyard in the same area on November 19.

The innocent victim had gone missing a day before around 3pm as she left her house to buy candies from a neighbourhood shop.

She was a resident of Mohalla Balo Khel Bala of Badaber - a village located on Kohat Road around 10 kilometres south of the city.

But the very next day, this gruesome act was revealed as the locals managed to recover the body after hours-long hectic efforts.

The accused had fled the area and went into...