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Top 10 narrow escapes

By Yan Weijue (chinadaily.com.cn)
Updated: 2010-12-23 13:12
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Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
69 days after being trapped underground at a depth of 625 meters, all of the 33 miners were hoisted to safety on Oct 13...[more]

Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
Darlene Etienne, 17, survived 15 days under the rubble after an 8-magnitude earthquake devastated Port-au-Prince, Haiti...[more]
Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
A Libyan Airbus jet crashed early on May 13, killing 103 people and leaving a young Dutch boy the sole survivor...[more]
Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
Sean Lian, KMT honorary chairman's son, was shot in the face and critically wounded in an election campaign rally in Taipei at 8 pm, Nov 26. A 3 1/2-hour surgery saved his life...[more]

Top 10 narrow escapes

Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
Two carriages of a passenger train fell into a river after floods destroyed a bridge on a railway. The driver made an emergency stop and ordered all passengers off the train before it derailed...[more]
Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
On March 28, an accident at the Wangjialing Coal Mine in Shanxi province trapped 153 miners underground. After an ordeal of eight days and eight nights, 115 were rescued, a remarkable feat in the history of Chinese mines...[more]
Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
About 400 residents of the Yao ethnic group at a village in Lingyun county of Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region were evacuated to safety before a landslide triggered lingering rainstorms and ravaged their homes...[more]
Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
Three teenaged boys were rescued after spending 50 days adrift in the South Pacific and reached land in Fiji...[more]

Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
Reporter Liu Yang's life was at risk as she was washed away by floodwaters before firefighters came to the rescue...[more]

Top 10 narrow escapes
Top 10 narrow escapes
A Beijing cyclist shot to fame after his miraculous escape from a deadly car crash without being injured...[more]