A five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by an 18-year-old man in Barabanki (UP), the police said on Saturday. The incident took place on Friday night within the Lonikatra police station limits, they added.

"A neighbour of the five-year-old girl, identified as Mohit (18), on the pretext of dropping her home, took her to a nearby field on his motorcycle and sexually assaulted her. He then dropped the girl at her place, before fleeing," Lonikatra police station in-charge B P Yadav said.