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Blanche Monnier Love Story
Blanche Monnier Love Story

Blanche Monnier Love Story

Blanche Monnier (1 March 1849 – 13 October 1913), often known in France as la Séquestrée de Poitiers (roughly, "The Confined Woman of Poitiers"), was a woman from Poitiers, France, who was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother and brother for 25 years. She was eventually found by police, then middle-aged and in emaciated and filthy condition; according to officials, Monnier had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity.

12-year-old boy found dead in Sayedabad hotel room
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12-year-old boy found dead in Sayedabad hotel room

Police have recovered the blood-stained body of an unidentified 12-year-old boy from a room on the fifth floor of a residential hotel at South Sayedabad in Dhaka.

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