The Independent

A 50-year-old American woman was found chained to a tree and left to die in a forest in India, police said.The woman, identified as Lalita Kayi Kumar, was rescued after a shepherd heard her cries on Saturday evening in Sonurli village, located about 450km from India’s financial capital of Mumbai in the south-western state of Maharashtra.Police registered a case of attempted murder against Ms Kumar’s former husband based on a note scribbled by her at the hospital.The authorities ascertained her identity and residential address from photocopies of a US passport and a national identity card recovered from her.”Based on the...

US woman found chained to tree and left to die in India jungle

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An American woman who went to India a decade ago to study yoga and meditation has claimed she survived without food and water for 40 days after being shackled to a tree by her former husband.U.S. citizen Lalita Kayi Kumar, 50, was found starving and emaciated on Saturday by a local shepherd in a remote forest in the Sindhudurg district of Maharashtra about 25 miles from Goa, according to reports.The shepherd broke an iron chain that was used to secure her to the tree. Police said she was severely dehydrated and unable to speak.Officers said Kumar met and married an...

Starving American Yoga Student Chained to Tree ‘For 40 Days’

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A woman was rescued in India after being found tied to a tree and allegedly left to die. WARNING: This story contains graphic details of abuse. Lalita Kayi Kumar was rescued near Mumbai over the weekend after someone heard her cries for help, according to the Deccan Chronicle. The 50-year-old...

U.S. Woman Found Emaciated, Tied to Tree in India After Being Left to Die: REPORT

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There were a number of celebrities who passed away within the past week, including two notable actresses: Shelley Duvall and Shannen Doherty. Shelley Duvall passed away on Thursday July 11th at her home in Blanco, Texas. The cause of death was complications from diabetes and news of her death was confirmed by her partner Dan Gilroy.

Two Beloved Hollywood Actresses Have Passed Away This Week

A devastated mom was handed a jail sentence after she burnt her daughter's rapist alive following his release from prison. Spanish woman María del Carmen García's daughter Verónica was just 13 years old when she was raped at knifepoint by her neighbor Antonio Cosme in 1998. The rapist was sentenced to nine years in prison for the crime but in June 2005 he was on day release when he approached María at a bus stop near her home outside of Alicante.

Mom burnt 13-year-old daughter's rapist alive after he taunted her while out of prison

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Makayla Pithan Trumbo had been wearing a beautiful necklace containing her mother’s ashes for eight months when she received a frantic phone call last year from her sisters.Something was happening at Return to Nature funeral home, the Colorado funeral home they’d hired to make arrangements after their beloved mother’s February death, they told her. There was a big police presence at the property in Penrose, Makayla’s sisters continued, and reports of bodies that had been stored improperly.Makayla, at first, didn’t worry, reasoning that too much time had passed since her mother’s death for her remains to have been caught up...

I wore my mother’s ashes around my neck. Then I found out her body was abandoned and decomposing in a funeral home

BANGKOK, Thailand (CNN/CNN Newsource/WKRC) - Six people were found dead in a luxury hotel Tuesday. Authorities in Thailand said Wednesday that cyanide poisoning was likely the cause of death of six people whose bodies were discovered in a hotel room in central Bangkok. One of the dead is suspected to...

6 found dead in luxury hotel linked to 'personal matter'

More warning signs are being put up at a Devon beauty spot after two people were rushed to hospital after being bitten by adders. A Facebook post from Braunton Burrows Public Information said two visitors went to hospital after being bitten at the nature reserve near Saunton Sands beach on Friday.

Adder warning in Devon after two people bitten

A ten-year-old girl has been left with serious bite wounds to her neck after being mauled by an unregistered XL bully. Police said the attack could have easily ended in tragedy after the child was grabbed by the dog and flung from side in a garden in Doncaster, south Yorkshire, on Monday.Three people have been arrested in connection with the incident. The unregistered and illegal dog was seized and taken into police kennels.Officers were called to the propery in the Belvedere in Balby area just after 10am.South Yorkshire Police said the girl had been in the garden of a neighbouring...

Girl, 10, mauled by unregistered XL bully in horror dog attack

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A man has been jailed after keeping a woman captive in her home where he raped and attacked her over the course of a week.Sam Price, 25, met his victim in Romford on July 16 last year and after exchanging details with her, police say his abuse began “within a matter of days”.Scotland Yard says Price raped her in her own home, and “prevented the woman from leaving her house during a sustained period of intimidation and abuse which took place over a week”.As well as raping her, Price repeatedly punched his victim, bit her, and subjected her to other...

Man jailed after raping woman he kept captive in her Romford home for a week

Four people have been arrested after what is believed to be monkey dust was uncovered during raids. Three females and one male remain in custody after West Mercia Police carried out two raids on properties in Telford. Officers targeted properties in Ketley Park Road, Ketley and Wilkinson Close, Snedshill, where...

Four arrested in raids targeting monkey dust

Two puppies were found abandoned in a sealed cardboard box, as the cost of living takes a toll on rescue centres and pet owners. RSPCA Brent Knoll Animal Centre in Somerset took the dogs in, who were just a few weeks old, after they were found by a member of the public at a roadside in Burtle on 5 July.

Puppies found abandoned in sealed box

The victim was stripped naked, beaten with a metal pole and burned with cigarettes.

Three men jailed for 'brutal' kidnap

Danielle Parkinson, 31, died following the blaze, which also killed an eight-year-old girl.

Woman who died in house fire named locally

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The mystery of the Egyptian “screaming woman” mummy discovered in the tomb of a royal architect in 1935 has a possible explanation after close to a century. Knewz.com has learned that scientist, Sahar Saleem, from the University of Cairo now credits the bizarre grimace of the corpse to a cadaveric spasm. Said cadaveric spasms – […]

89-Year-Old Mystery Solved as Scientists Uncover 'Screaming Woman' Mummy Embalmed with Teeth Bared

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The face of an ancient Egyptian mummy set in a gaping rictus may be the result of a death so painful, her face may have become locked in a scream.
Her name is unknown; but so striking is her grim facial expression that she is referred to as the Screaming Woman mummy. In spite of the feelings this face engenders, researchers had previously attributed it to the relatively benign cause of a shoddily performed mummification. New research, however, suggests that this wasn't the case.



					
			

Radiologist Sahar Saleem of Cairo University and anthropologist Samia El-Merghani of the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities...

Grim Mystery of Ancient Egypt's 'Screaming' Mummy May Finally Be Solved

BBC Africa Eye investigates a shocking spate of elderly people accused of witchcraft then murdered along Kenya’s Kilifi coast, and discovers the true motives behind the killings. Seventy-four-year-old Tambala Jefwa stares vacantly out of his one remaining eye as his wife, Sidi, gently removes his shirt. “They stabbed him...

Accused of witchcraft then murdered for land

Detectives are searching for two boys after a teenage girl was left “extremely frightened and shaken” when she was threatened on a bus in Bexley.The 17-year-old victim was travelling on the B15 on April 22 when two boys sitting behind her whispered a threat of sexual violence.They then got off at Ruskin Drive Stop G in Welling.The victim reported the incident to officers the same day.PC Toby Bayliss, the investigating officer from the Met’s Road and Transport Policing Command, said: “This incident understandably left the victim feeling extremely frightened and shaken. We will not tolerate this type of language and...

Police hunt for two boys after teenage girl left 'extremely shaken' by threat on bus

An ancient Egyptian mummy who was found wearing a black wig and had a “screaming” face may have died wailing in pain around 3,000 years ago, scientists believe.Nicknamed the “Screaming Woman”, her eternal expression of agony has puzzled experts for 90 years.Analysing the remains using new technology, archaeologists now believe she died crying in distress and her muscles quickly stiffened and froze shortly after her death, immortalising her anguish.However they said the cause of her death, which may have been violent, remains a mystery.Sahar Saleem, a professor of radiology at Kasr Al Ainy Hospital of Cairo University in Egypt, described...

Mystery of the Egyptian Screaming Woman mummy ‘who died wailing in pain 3,000 years ago’

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Kim Kardashian and Kanye West are two of the biggest celebrities in modern times. While much of the happenings between the two involved their marriage and divorce, there are bigger things for them to focus on. Most notably their children.

Kim Kardashian and Kanye West’s Son Diagnosed With Rare Skin Condition

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Mystery surrounds US woman found starving and chained to tree in India

Lalita Kayi came to India 10 years ago to study yoga and meditation. How did she end up in a...

Mystery surrounds US woman found starving and chained to tree in India

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