The suspects are aged below 14 and were detained by police in Handan, Hebei province.
Police in northern China have arrested three boys on suspicion of killing a 13-year-old classmate in a case that has refocused attention on the plight of “left-behind children”.
The reports did not specify the ages of the children accused, saying only that they were below the age of 14.
The Beijing News reported that the victim, identified only as Wang, disappeared on Sunday afternoon and was found on Monday afternoon in an abandoned vegetable shed in a village in Handan, Hebei province, about 500km (310 miles) south of Beijing.
