Johannesburg – An 11-year-old Soweto girl who was raped and stabbed is recovering in hospital, Gauteng police said on Thursday.

“She is no longer in ICU,” Warrant Officer Kay Makhubela said.

The girl and her little brother were asleep in a house in Bram Fischerville when she was attacked on Wednesday morning. She was raped and stabbed three times in the upper body. No arrests had been made.

– SAPA