Three days after their boat ran out of fuel and drifted off course in Micronesia, the men were found in good condition after a plane saw their giant plea for help spelled out on the sand.
Tag: Rescues
Migrants Adrift Off Malta Called for Help. Then They Waited. And Waited.
A boat carrying 95 migrants on the Mediterranean floated adrift for more than 30 hours before the Maltese authorities finally brought them to shore under intense pressure.
‘Pure Instinct’: The Extraordinary Rescue of 2 French Boys From a Fire
The story of how two brothers, 10 and 3, were saved from a burning apartment: “There were maybe five or six of us,” said one of the rescuers. “We did not plan anything.”
Crowd Catches 2 French Children Who Leapt From Burning Apartment
The boys, aged 3 and 10, landed safely after people gathered below to break their fall.
Japan’s Deadly Combination: Climate Change and an Aging Society
Record-breaking rains this week in the country’s southernmost main island, which have killed 62, have shown the vulnerability of people living in nursing homes.
Japan Flooding Deaths Rise to 58, With More Rain on Horizon
Tens of thousands of troops, police officers and other rescue workers have worked their way through mud and debris in the hardest-hit riverside towns to evacuate residents.
At Least 32 Dead as Boat Capsizes in Bangladesh
Search efforts were continuing after a passenger ship was struck by a ferry near a busy port in Dhaka, the capital.
Landslide in Norway Sweeps 8 Buildings Into the Sea
The slide, which ran more than 2,000 feet along the shore and nearly 500 feet inland, was the largest the area had ever seen. A dog was carried out to sea but swam to safety.
Pakistan Plane Crash Leaves Grim Task: Identifying Victims From DNA
Officials were using samples from relatives to identify many of the remains pulled from the rubble and smoldering wreckage after the flight went down in a congested neighborhood of Karachi.
Why Matteo Salvini Wouldn’t Mind Being Prosecuted
The Italian nationalist is facing a potential trial on accusations of abduction for blocking rescued migrants when he was interior minister. And he can’t believe his luck.