4 h. ago Girl, 8, executed and had eyes gouged out in sinister 'sacrifice' for soon

A young girl was brutally murdered and had her body mutilated after being abducted for a ritual that a couple believed would help the birth of their future child

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28 h. ago Horror murder of girl, 2, with eyes gouged out and hands crushed

Twinkle Sharma was just two years old when she was brutally murdered in Aligarh, India, in a sickening act of revenge after her father failed to repay a loan

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28 h. ago Brutal murder of girl, 2, over father's debt as she has eyes gouged out and hands crushed

The world was left horrified when toddler Twinkle Sharma was brutally killed - and her mutilated body was discovered after being dragged from a rubbish bin by stray dogs

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3 d. ago Man lures Grindr date into his home for a massage... before 'gouging his eye out with kitchen knife'

Reggie Florence, 28, convinced a man to drive from Long Island to Middletown, New York, and allegedly stabbed him during a massage - with cleaning supplies at the ready nearby.

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4 d. ago Putin's dark childhood from mother's eye gouged out to being chased by rats

Vladimir Putin has become one of the most powerful men in the world, but his childhood was marked by tragedy and violence in Leningrad, now known as St. Petersburg

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6 d. ago Death row killer gouges out both his own eyes and eats them in bid to avoid execution

Andre Thomas, 39, was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murders of his estranged wife and her two children. His execution was postponed after he gouged out his eyes

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7 d. ago Death row killer gouged out own eyes and ate them after killing wife and kids

Andre Thomas was sentenced to death in 2005 for the murder of his wife Laura Christine Boren, his four-year-old son and Boren's 13-month-old daughter in Texas

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7 d. ago Death row prisoner cuts out wife and kids' hearts then gouges out and eats his own eyes

The man on death row was found in his cell covered in blood after he gouged out both of his eyes in a bid to avoid execution after he believed God told him to carry out a triple murder

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7 d. ago Texas Target shooter 'executed girl, 4, in car seat after murdering grandpa'

Ethan Nieneker, 32, has been charged with murdering four-year-old Astrid Chow along with her grandad Adam Chow and a Target store worker during a shooting spree in Austin, Texas

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8 d. ago Target shooter 'coldly executed girl, 4, in back seat of car after making her watch as he murdered her grandpa'

Target worker Hector Machuca, 24, was killed along with Adam Chow, 65, and his four-year-old granddaughter as Ethan Blaine Nieneker, 32, rampaged through the store in Austin.

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin's dad 'gouged out his mum's eye with pitchfork in fit of rage'

A bombshell new book about Russian President Vladimir Putin's life claims his dad gouged out his mum's eye with a pitchfork during 'a fit of rage'

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin's brute father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork 'in a fit of rage', new book claims

Vladimir Putin's father gouged out his mother's eye with a pitchfork, it was revealed.

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1 week ago Putin’s father 'gouged out mother’s eye with a pitchfork in fit of rage', book claims

The violent attack came when Putin's mother Maria — known as Marusya — was just 17 and Vladimir senior flew into a "fit of rage” when she wouldn't let him and a group of male friends into her house

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