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They are holding on for dear life: some day saves

August 1964: 9 workers trapped in a limestone mine in Champaignol, France are rescued after 8 days. They were caught at a depth of 200 feet.

November 1989: 65 workers trapped 120 feet below the Raniganj Mahavir coal mine in Bengal were rescued after 72 hours. 5 people could not be found. They were saved by making another tunnel.

October 1972: There is an amazing story in Chile where a plane crashed and got stuck in the snow for more than 2 months and came back to life. On October 13, 1972, a plane carrying members of the Uruguay Old Christians Club rugby union team crashed in the snowy Andes.

There were 45 passengers including members of the team, relatives and flight attendants. 12 died immediately; A condition where there is no contact with the outside world, no food and water. A further 17 died later at various times due to bad weather and health problems. The other 16 passengers returned alive after 70 days of wandering through the snow in the blood-curdling cold. The rescue operation was completed on December 23.

May 2006: 2 people rescued after 14 days after being trapped 1 km below the Beaconsfield gold mine in Tanzania, Australia. Both of them lived in an iron cage the size of a bed.

August 2007: 2 workers trapped in a coal mine covered by a landslide in Beijing crawled for 130 hours and escaped on the sixth day. They survived by drinking each other’s urine.

August 2010: 33 people are rescued after 70 days after the collapse of the Sanozé mine in Copiapo, Chile, trapped more than 2,000 feet.

July 2018: 12 children and their coach, members of a local junior football team, were rescued after 18 days trapped in a flooded cave in Thailand.

November 2020: Water rushed into a mine in Nijiang in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province. 29 people trapped were brought to the top after a 30-hour rescue operation

January 2021: 14 people trapped in a gold mine after an explosion in eastern China’s Shandong province were rescued after two weeks.

English summary : Amazon forest Child rescue operations