Anqing: 6-year-old missing girl confirmed dead, suspect in custody. Town government staff: Continuing to comfort the girl's family.

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Since late at night on March 31, a case in Qiangpu Town, Yuexi County, Anqing City, Anhui Province—where a 6-year-old girl surnamed Wang has gone missing—has continued to deeply move people’s hearts.

On the evening of April 6, the Yuexi County Public Security Bureau released a police situation notification, providing the latest updates on the missing 6-year-old girl. The notification indicated that at 23:54 on March 31, a resident surnamed Zhang of Qiangpu Town reported to the police that her daughter Wang (6 years old) had gone missing. After receiving the call, the Yuexi County Public Security Bureau immediately organized a dedicated team to carry out search, investigation, and criminal investigation.

After the work, the police determined that Wang had been murdered, and arrested the criminal suspect Liu (female, 35 years old) and brought her to justice.

▲ Screenshot of the notification from the Yuexi County Public Security Bureau

On the evening of the 6th, a reporter from Hongxing News dialed the Yuexi County Public Security Bureau and the Qiangpu Town police station. The staff answering the calls all said that the case was still under investigation, and that subsequent developments would be released in a notification. Meanwhile, on the evening of the 6th, the Hongxing News reporter called the father of the girl. When the other party heard the reporter’s description, they replied, “We all have seen the notification,” and then hung up, unwilling to say more.

The reporter also called the Qiangpu Town government. A staff member answering the call said, “From the time of the incident until now, we have all been highly concerned, and we have also continued to soothe the girl’s family’s emotions.”

Case review:

A 6-year-old girl goes missing at the door of her home; her mother returns from her hometown and finds that her daughter is missing

According to a previous report by Hongxing News, the 6-year-old girl Wang is enrolled in the senior class of a kindergarten. Previously, the girl’s father said that the place where the child went missing was right downstairs at home (Hongxing News previously reported >> On the 3rd day of a local search for a missing girl in Anqing, Anhui).

Also, according to a report from the China National Radio Network on April 5, the missing girl Wang is about 110 centimeters tall. Her body features are a round face, a single eyelid, and fair skin. When she went missing, she had short hair. The girl and her family rented a three-story building along a street in town, where the first floor was shops such as a milk tea store and a stationery store, and the second and third floors were residential living areas.

A fellow villager from the same village told media that when the girl went missing, her mother planned to drive back from town to her hometown in the Changling Village area, and asked her daughter Wang to go upstairs to get the keys. After the mother received the keys, she drove away. Changling Village is about 20 minutes away from the rented residence of mother and daughter by car. When the mother returned, she found that the girl was missing.

After receiving the report, the Yuexi County Public Security Bureau quickly deployed police to rush to Qiangpu Town. Together with town and village officials and more than 100 concerned members of the public, they carried out a sweep and inspection of the area where the incident occurred. During the rescue and search, the working group used technical means such as police dogs and drones to conduct a comprehensive search of key areas. On April 2, the Anqing Municipal Public Security Bureau added multiple technical backbones to Yuexi County to provide technical support for the case investigation, assisting in expanding both the coverage and depth of the search and rescue efforts.

Hongxing News reporter Yang Yuqi — compiled from sources including Xinhua News Agency and China National Radio Network

Editor Yang Zong Review Ren Zhijiang