Chilling details about the brutal murder of a five-year-old girl in Aluva emerged from the post-mortem conducted on July 29 at the Medical College in Kalamassery.

The accused, Asfaq Alam from Bihar, who confessed to murder and sexual abuse, used the child's cloth to strangulate her, the examination found.

The accused hit the child's head with a stone; there were injuries on the genitals of the child, the autopsy stated.

The child's body was brought to the taluk hospital at Aluva. The cremation will take place Sunday at the Keezhmadu crematorium on Sunday.

Alam will be produced before a court on Sunday. The cops had earlier suspected the involvement of others.

The child's body was found 21 hours after she went missing. The accused, who had been arrested Friday night, had initially claimed innocence but admitted after CCTV footage showed he had abducted the child.

The victim's family lived in a residential complex that housed guest workers, including Alam. She was the second child of a couple from Bihar. She is survived by two sisters and a brother.