A nine-year-old girl was found raped and murdered in her bed near Bronkhorstspruit on Friday, Gauteng police said.
Inspector Sanet Lourens said her body was found around 7.45am on Friday in her room that she shared with her four-year-old brother.
The brother called for help from their grandmother who lived in the main house after he could not wake his sister. She broke down the door to get inside.
It was not known how the girl was killed and a post mortem would be conducted on Monday.
A friend of the family was being sought in connection with the rape and murder, said Lourens.
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In an unrelated incident a 25-year-old man was arrested for murder on Friday.
He allegedly injured a person with a panga on a farm in the Bronkhorstspruit area on 3 May.
Though a police docket was not opened the person was taken to hospital where he died of his injuries. Hospital staff contacted police to inform them to open a case of murder.
The 25-year-old would appear before the Bronkhorstpruit Magistrate's Court on Monday, said Lourens. - Sapa