A 20-year-old man has been detained for allegedly killing a minor girl by pushing her out of a window from the sixth floor of a residential building in Maharashtra’s Thane district, police said on Tuesday.

The horrifying incident took place late on Monday night at a 10-storey building in Samrat Nagar, located in the Mumbra area. According to PTI, the accused, a resident of Thakurpada in Mumbra, is suspected to have lured the 10-year-old girl with the offer of toys and taken her to the bathroom of his flat. He then allegedly pushed her out through an open window, causing her to fall into a vertical duct that runs through the centre of the building.