Bhopal: A 15-year-old girl was late on Thursday night gangraped and then burnt to death allegedly by two local youths in the village of Jhujharpur in Sagar district of Madhya Pradesh.

The police recovered the charred body of the victim early on Friday morning after being informed by her family members.

According to the police, the accused, Ravindra Kumar and Bhagat, barged into her house and then gangraped her.

They then set her on fire. They threatened her brother, who spotted both the accused fleeing his house after committing the crime, to kill him if he reported the matter to the police.