A 41-year-old Albanian national on Monday was arrested for the murder of an 11-year-old Bulgarian girl in a village in the central Peloponnese , hours after the girl’s disappearance was broadcast around the country as part of an “Amber alert”.

The girl’s body was found at daybreak on Monday at the bottom of a well in a field near the village of Eleohori , in Arcadia prefecture.

A canvassing of the area and local residents by police reportedly led to the suspect, who according to reports, has lived in the village with his family for the past 10 years.

Police said the man confessed to offering the girl a ride home from the village’s main square at approximately 1:20 a.m. early Sunday morning. However, he subsequently drove the child to a remote area seven kilometers outside the village, where he raped her before throwing her in the well.

Authorities said the water inside the well was at least 10 metres in depth, although a coroner’s report is pending to pinpoint the exact causes of death.

The alleged perpetrator reportedly led police to the site where the crime occurred.

The foreign national was expected to be led before a local prosecutor in the Arcadia capital of Tripolis on Monday afternoon.