independent.co.uk/A teenager who went missing in a dense Tennessee forest for 11 days has been found in “good condition”.
Austin Bohanan got lost after being separated from his stepfather during a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The 18-year-old, who managed to survive for nearly two weeks without any food, said he was not “scared” and followed his instincts.
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latimes.com reported a Los Angeles couple who went missing during a visit to the desert wandered for five days, drinking their own urine to survive, before they were discovered by the U.S. Border Patrol, according to a friend of the couple. On Friday, the LAPD confirmed that Mariya Mitkova, 27, and Aaron Morganstein, 33, were […]
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According to eturbonews.com, the rescue of tourists and other passengers of the stranded, Russian ship Akademik Shokalsky has started, as a Chinese helicopter reached the stranded crew. The operation follows several failed evacuation attempts. Fifty-two scientists and tourists are to be transferred by helicopter to a Chinese ship, 7 miles away from the Shokalsky. The […]
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Canada.com reports that less than three years after its creation, the world’s newest country is beginning to fracture along ethnic lines in violence that has killed hundreds of people. What could come next, some warn, is ethnic cleansing. South Sudan’s numerous ethnic groups have battled each other for decades, but for years their animosity was […]
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NBC News reports the couple and four children who had been missing since Sunday night in the frigid mountains of northern Nevada were found safe Tuesday, local officials said. The six were found “in fairly good shape,” late Tuesday morning after crews had spent two nights searching for them, said Pershing County police dispatcher Leslie […]
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According to news24.com, a Chinese tourist who fell into a gorge at Zambia’s famous Victoria Falls while taking pictures has escaped with only bruises, a tourism official said on Wednesday. The tourist named as Wang Shun Xue plunged into the shallow section of the gorge and survived with “only minor injuries,” John Zulu, manager of […]
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According to eturbonews.com, Thai and foreign tourists trapped on Racha Yai island after a heavy storm were lifted to safety by the Thai navy, police said on Sunday. A total of 157 tourists, comprising 141 foreigners and 16 Thais, were stuck on the island on the east coast of Phuket after a rainstorm arrived on […]
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Yahoo News New Zealand reports that a terrifying ordeal for a tourist left stranded on Mt Ruapehu after falling, fracturing his leg, and losing all means of communicating with emergency services. The German man fell near the top of the Te Heu Heu Valley around midday yesterday and slid for some distance on ice and […]
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As reported by Rte.ie, police in New Zealand have said an Irish hiker, who went missing in Kahurangi National Park for almost two days, was very lucky to be found. Siobhan Flynn was separated from her group on the first day of their trip and was unconscious for some time following a fall. She is […]
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Abc.net.au reports that firefighters are still trying to control a bushfire which kept a group of tourists trapped in a Kimberley national park at the weekend. The bushfire flared up in the Geikie gorge National Park near Fitzroy Crossing at the weekend. On Sunday afternoon, fire crews rounded up nine tourists but the fire was […]
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