Woman Trapped In Bathroom For 20 Days

French firefighters freed a 69-year-old woman who became stuck in her bathroom for almost 3 weeks after doorknob fell off.

The room had no window or phone so the 69-year-old was unable to tell anyone but she tapped on pipes during the night, hoping to alert her neighbours.

Firefighters broke into her second-floor flat in Epinay-sous-Senart,Paris and reportedly found her lying on the ground in the bathroom, in a "very weakened" state.
The woman, who has not been named, had survived on warm tap water for almost three weeks.She is now recovering in hospital

"You could hear banging sounds, like a hammer, even at night," one neighbour told local media. "But we thought they were doing work at night. We said: 'They are going too far! They are preventing us from sleeping!' If we had known....'"