Body of 14-yr-old boy stoned to death found in UP's Muzaffarnagar

A 14-year-old boy has been stoned to death by unknown miscreants in the Ladhawala locality here, police said today.

The victim, identified as Zuber, had gone missing last evening after leaving home to buy medicines, they said.

Locals searching for the boy found his body in a vacant plot of land nearby, officials said.

The body, bearing injuries suspected to have been caused with a brick, was sent for postmortem and an investigation launched, police said.