Living legend, a fighter miraculously survived. They deceived death: the stories of people who were “born in a shirt” and miraculously survived disasters and after accidents. Anna Bagenholm: Ice Captivity
Many miraculously surviving people are the strongest guys. They believe that already in their case nothing will be impossible and, believe me, they are right.
- A man with a half head. This person is a living example of what can happen if you drive while intoxicated or simply smoke some kind of dope. 26-year-old Carlos Rodriguez, who was nicknamed the "Half" miraculously survived after a car accident, while losing half of his skull. A terrible accident happened when Carlos was only 14 years old. Doctors managed to save the teenager. And the whole world found out about him only a few years ago, when Carlos was arrested by Miami police for indulging prostitution. Soon he was released on medical grounds.
- Internal decapitation. Shannon Malloy was admitted to the hospital after a terrible car collision. Her car door slammed shut on her neck. The worst thing was that the door tore apart every ligament and tendon that connected the brain to the spinal cord. All other organs remained intact. In fact, her head just hung dangling from her skin. After many complicated operations, doctors managed to save the girl. Miraculously, but Shannon managed to avoid paralysis. True, she still lost the ability to see with her left eye and has minor speech defects.
- Iron lungs. For almost 60 years, Diana Odell’s life depended on an artificial respiration apparatus. At the age of 3 years, the girl became ill with polio and her spine was deformed. However, Odell lived a full and full life. She was able to graduate and write a book.
- Steel bar in the head. Finneas Gage underwent an amazing neurosurgical operation back in 1840. The man worked as a demoman in one mine and, by the will of the rock, did not calculate the burning time of the cord. The shell exploded near Finneas, and the iron rod lifted into the air pierced through Gage's head. Surgeons miraculously managed to pull his fragments from the damaged brain. Six months later, the man returned to a full life. Of course, a terrible injury made itself felt throughout his remaining life in the form of frequent headaches.
- Head in particle accelerator. In 1978, the Soviet scientist Anatoly Petrovich Bugorsky accidentally fell under a working particle accelerator. However, he did not feel any pain. But such an unusual case still gave a side effect. A ray of charged protons rushed through his brain at the speed of light and Bugorsky’s left face was forever paralyzed.
- Surviving after an hour under water. In the winter of 1986, two-year-old Michelle Funk played on a frozen stream near the house. But thin ice could not bear her weight, and the girl fell into the water. She was found and taken out only an hour after the tragedy. Everyone thought she was already dead. But a miracle happened! After a heart massage, the girl came to life. Her brain was not injured.
- Cut in half. In 2006, Truman Duncan decided to sit on the rails and was very dreamy. The train that was rushing along the same rails did not manage to brake. As a result, the unfortunate man was cut in half. Surgeons had to sew almost half the body to Duncan. The man lost his arm and leg on the right side, but the body, after 23 operations, was saved.
- The return of sensitivity to the amputated limb. Dane Dennis Aabo Sorensen lost his arm in 2003. And in 2014, using the latest technology, doctors created a system of electrodes connected to the nerve endings of Sorensen's shoulder. After that, Dennis was able to control the prosthesis as part of his body and feel objects in his fingers. A real miracle, thanks to the development of science.
- Turned heart. In 2014, Italian surgeons were surprised by one of his patients, who was admitted to the department after the accident. After examining the man, they discovered an incredible heart defect. It turned 90 degrees to the right. This condition is called dextrocardia. Doctors were able to correct the position of the heart.
“My Planet” has collected seven incredible stories of salvation, which prove that you never need to give up and give up. The fate of these people formed the basis of books and films about the rules of survival in the ocean, snow-capped mountains, jungles and caves.
75 rub for a life
The name of Larisa Savitskaya was included in the Russian edition of the Guinness Book of Records as the only person who survived after falling from a height of 5200 m, and as a person who received a minimum amount of compensation for physical damage - 75 rubles.
The plane crash occurred in August 1981. A 20-year-old student was returning with her husband to Blagoveshchensk from a honeymoon and accidentally got into the tail of the plane, although she had tickets in the middle of the cabin. At the time of the passenger collision of the An-24 with the Tu-16 military bomber, which occurred due to the error of the controllers, Larisa was asleep. Waking up from a severe blow, she felt a burn, as the temperature dropped sharply to −30 ° C. When the fuselage was broken, Savitskaya was on the floor in the aisle, but managed to get up, run up to the chair and squeeze into it before “her” fragment was planned on a birch grove.
After landing, she was unconscious for several hours. When she regained consciousness, she saw her husband’s body and, despite grief, broken ribs, arms, a concussion and spinal injury, she began to fight for life. From the wreckage of the plane, she built herself a semblance of a hut to escape from the rains, warmed herself with seat covers and covered herself with mosquito bags. Rescuers found her two days after the disaster.
How the surviving Larisa Savitskaya was given 75 rubles. (according to Gosstrakh standards, the USSR relied on 300 rubles for damages for the dead and 75 rubles for survivors of the air crashes). The Soviet press reported the incident only in 1985 as a disaster during a test of an aircraft. Larisa herself claimed that at the time of the crash she remembered the Italian film “Miracles Still Happen” about a heroine who survived in the same situation.
Nine days in the jungle
Peruvian schoolgirl Juliana Margaret Kepke is the very girl about whom the film "Miracles Still Happen" was shot. At 17, she was able to survive after a plane crash on a domestic flight to Peru: lightning hit the plane, it fell from a height of 3 km, and Köpke was the only one who survived from 92 passengers.
For nine days, the girl, despite injuries and a concussion, single-handedly made her way to people through the rainforest. By happy coincidence, Juliana's father, to whom she flew with her mother for the Christmas holidays, taught her survival skills in the jungle.
She went on a hike through the forest after four days of waiting for salvation at the scene of the disaster, taking with her a few chocolates. Along the way, she met animals and snakes, because of wounds and insects, Julian almost did not sleep, in the boil she got larvae - she got rid of them, only reaching the fishing boat and pouring gasoline on the wound. On the tenth day, the girl met fishermen who helped her. Juliana told her story in the book “When I Fell from Heaven,” and then the movie mentioned above was shot on it.
127 hours in the canyon
American climber Aron Ralston spent more than five days in a canyon in Utah: during a solitary ascent, a large stone fell on him and crushed his right hand.
The 27-year-old athlete went on this campaign alone, without warning anyone, and knew that he had no place to wait for salvation. On the fourth day, he ran out of water and had to drink his own urine. On the fifth day, he began to prepare for the worst: he made a farewell video on the camera and engraved his name and the date of the alleged death on the wall.
When there was nothing left to lose, Aron decided to make his last attempt to survive: cut off his arm to free himself. At first he had to break it with his own weight, then he started the operation with a penknife. Painful amputation lasted an hour. Freed, Aron, despite the bleeding, went down from the 18-meter wall and walked through the desert for about 13 km before he met people. About these events that occurred in 2003, director Danny Boyle made the film “127 Hours” based on the book of the same name by Aron.
76 days on an inflatable raft
US yachtsman Stephen Callahan was going to take part in a single race across the Atlantic on the Napoleon Solo sailboat, but the unexpected happened - according to the athlete, the ship rammed a whale and the ship went to the bottom.
Callahan managed to save an inflatable raft and a bag with a survival kit from a sinking ship, for which he had to dive into a flooded cabin. In this bag was a book about survival in the ocean. The yachtsman caught fish with the help of a harpoon and ate it raw, fought with the waves, survived the attack of a shark. He saw nine ships sail past, but not one noticed a small raft.
The raft made its way from the Cape Verde (Senegal) to the island of Marie Galant in the Caribbean (Guadeloupe archipelago): when it was washed ashore, local fishermen found a skinny traveler with sores from salty water on his body.
In total, Callahan spent 76 days at sea and covered 3300 km. The described events occurred in 1982, you can read about them in the memoirs of the yachtsman "In the drift: Seventy-six days in captivity by the sea." Stephen Callahan was a consultant for the filming of Life Lee's Ang Lee.
Three weeks in the Amazon jungle
The Israeli Yossi Ginsberg went with three friends to search for the Aboriginal tribe in the jungle of Bolivia. On the way, the company split in two due to a quarrel, Yosi stayed with his partner Kevin, they began to descend the river on a raft and stumbled onto the threshold: Ginsberg’s friend immediately sailed ashore, and he himself was involved in the stream and didn’t die.
The next three weeks, Yoshi alone survived in the Amazon jungle. He had to eat raw bird eggs and fruit, fight off the jaguar - he was scared away with the help of a spray from insects, which Yoshi thought to set on fire, and at the end of the trip he almost drowned in a swamp. “The most difficult moment was when I realized that I was completely alone,” Ginsberg later recalled. “At some point, I decided that I was ready for any suffering, but I won’t stop.”
When the local search squad finally found the traveler, he was covered in insect bites and burns from the sun, an entire colony of termites settled on his body. Ginsberg wrote the book “Alone in the Jungle” about this unforgettable journey in 1981, Discovery made the documentary “I Shouldn't Survive”, and the feature film “The Jungle” starring Kevin Bacon will soon be shot (rental scheduled for 2016).
41 days in the ocean
The journey of the young couple along the Tahiti-San Diego route was disrupted by a sudden hurricane. 12-meter waves overturned a sailing ship in which the 23-year-old American Tami Ashcraft and her fiance Briton Richard Sharp sailed. From the shock of the wave, the girl lost consciousness. When Tami woke up a day later, she saw that the boat was broken and her friend’s life belt was torn.
Tami built a temporary mast, scooped up water from the cabin, and continued her journey, guided by the stars. Her voyage alone lasted 41 days, water supplies, peanut butter and canned food were barely enough not to die from exhaustion.
Among the survivors were two medical students, they made medical tires from the wreckage of the aircraft and how they could treat passengers. On the 11th day of the disaster, people learned from the radio that their searches had been stopped: a white plane on a snowy peak had gone unnoticed.
When food supplies ran out, a difficult decision was made - to eat the bodies of the dead, since it was impossible to get food in these places. Water was extracted from snow: it melted in the sun on metal plates. After some time, an avalanche descended from the mountains, eight more people died, and the rest were buried in the snow. Only after three days of snow captivity, people were saved by one of the team members - Nando Parrado, who broke a window into the cockpit, and everyone managed to get inside.
After three months of life in the mountains, only 16 people survived. All of them were saved thanks to the courage of Nando Parrado and his friend Roberto Cannes, who made a 12-day crossing through the Andes without equipment, maps and warm clothing. After 60 km, they went out to the people. More information about the tragedy can be found on the official website of Uruguay’s Air Force Flight 571, from the memoirs of Nando Parrado and its adaptation under the title Living.
blick.chYou must have heard of people who survived when everyone died. Or when the circumstances were such that even the hope of salvation is difficult to experience. However, such cases are not uncommon, and there is always a chance at the last moment to jump out of the clutches of death. These stories are just about such people.
Enietra Washington: serial killer
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Enietra was the only victim who survived a meeting with Los Angeles serial killer Lonnie David Franklin the Younger, also known as The Dark Sleeper (Makeup Sleeper). It was 1988, at that time she was 30 years old. She recalled how a short black man that day drove up to her in an orange Ford with a white stripe on the hood, like a race car, offering to let her down. When she refused, he said: “That's what is wrong with you, black women, it is simply impossible to be nice with you!” and shot her in the chest, and then dragged into the car.
Having raped her several times, the killer threw the woman to the side of the road, and he left. Enietra managed to survive, and she gave the police the first description of the killer, and also reported the make of his car. She described him as "a thin, tidy, polite and well-groomed black guy." However, the searches yielded no results. After this incident, Lonnie was hiding for 13 years and did not commit crimes. The investigation has been actively pursued since 2001, when detectives began to use DNA analysis technology to test thousands of unsolved murders that occurred over several years in Los Angeles. In 2004, it became clear that a killer shot a 35-year-old woman a year earlier, and in March 2002, a 14-year-old girl was raped and strangled. In 2007, homeless people found the body of a 25-year-old girl who was shot and covered by a garbage bag. DNA tests showed that Godin did the same man. Detectives checked the killer’s DNA using the federal DNA database of famous criminals, but found no trace. Only in 2010, Loni David Franklin Jr. was detained. He was charged with 10 murders and one attempted murder. When in court Enietra was asked if she was sure that this was the man who shot her, to which she replied: "100%." The "dark sleeping" was sentenced to death.
Yasser Lopez: a fishing spear in the head
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A 16-year-old American was considering a gas rifle for fishing, about to go fishing. The device was a powerful weapon, equipped with a cylinder for compressed gas and pushing the harpoon due to gas. However, suddenly the device worked and fired a 90-centimeter spear directly into the guy's head. Yasser did not panic and went to the hospital himself. He remained conscious all the way to her. He was born in a shirt: the spear did not affect vital areas of the brain, the injury only slightly affected motility. Soon after a complex operation to retrieve the item, Yasser fully recovered.
Anna Bagenholm: Ice Captivity
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On that ill-fated day of 1999, Anna was skiing with a couple of colleagues, it was in the mountains near the Norwegian city of Narvik. Anna often visited these places and loved to ski. However, that day, Anna, moving down a rather steep slope, suddenly lost control and fell, having hit her head hard on the ice. The ice cracked, and the woman was in icy water, hanging upside down and skiing on the surface. After some time, the ice closed over it, and Anna was trapped under a layer of 20-centimeter cold.
Unable to get out, Anna stayed in the water for about 1.5 hours, then she had a cardiac arrest. Fortunately, friends noticed her disappearance and, seeing what happened to her, called rescuers. To Anna's body did not go under the ice, her friends held her by the legs. After the woman was resuscitated for a long time - and she came to herself and is still alive.
Eva Wisniersku: survived on a paraglider in a thunderstorm
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Champion of Germany in paragliding, Eva Wisniersku, is called the most successful woman in the world. In February 2007, while preparing for the World Paragliding Championship in Australia, the athlete fell into a thundercloud. The element spun the woman, and streams of air lifted her to a height of more than 9 thousand meters. At a height, Eva lost consciousness after spending about an hour in this state.
Fortunately, streams of air still lowered her down. Having regained consciousness, Eva realized that she had frostbite herself on almost all exposed skin areas: hands, face, ears. Despite this, she even managed to land. Now Eva is alive and well: she is 45 years old and she continues to fly on a paraglider.
Hatty Strez: gunfight
In 2011, Hattie calmly awaited her turn for a manicure in the salon of the city of Seal Beach in California. Suddenly she heard shots: it turned out that at that moment Scott Dikraai entered the salon, intending to shoot his ex-wife. He had been suing her for several months now because of custody of the child. However, after shooting at his wife, who was doing manicure at that time, he continued to shoot at other visitors, killing eight more in less than two minutes.
Hattie also hurt: a bullet entered her arm and passed through her chest.
The only noise I remember from that day is: pop, pop, pop, pop, ”she recalled.“ I felt a sharp pain in my heart, and when I looked down at my hand, it just hung, all torn.
Hattie is the only one who survived from salon visitors that day.
Elianna Vazquez: House Blast
It happened on December 14, 2016 in the city of Bismarck. High school student Elianna woke up in her room from the fact that crushed stone fell on her. The girl thought it was a dream, but alas: it turned out that their house, in which they lived with their mother and stepfather, exploded. Both parents of Elianna died. So far, the investigation failed to find out the cause of that accident.
A person does not know what strength he has until he finds himself in a situation in which he has no choice but to survive. The people we are talking about today have survived thanks to a lightning reaction, dedication, fortitude and faith in the best. These stories once again convince us that we need to enjoy life, not to lose hope and believe in luck.
The homeless Robert Evans was first hit by a bicycle in a car on a street in Boulder, Colorado. An ambulance took the victim and five hours later released him into the wild, immediately after that he was hit by a train with coal. And Robert was back in the same hospital again. Homeless escaped with only minor injuries.
Roy Sullivan received the nickname "Lightning Rod Man" and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records, because he survived after seven lightning strikes. Since 1936 he worked as a ranger in the Shenandoah National Park. In 1942, lightning struck Roy Sullivan in the leg when he was on the fire tower, while his thumbnail came off. In 1969, as a result of a lightning strike while driving on a mountain road, Roy was left without eyebrows and lost consciousness. In 1970, another lightning strike led to an injury to the left shoulder, while the arm was paralyzed. This happened on the lawn of his own home. In 1972, due to a lightning strike in the territory of the administrative building of the forestry, Salivan's hair caught fire. After this incident, he always carried a container of water with him. On August 7, 1973, lightning struck Roy's head as he drove in a car through the territory of the forest entrusted to him. The hair caught fire again, the forester was thrown out of the car and his shoes were torn off his feet. On June 5, 1976, the sixth lightning strike on campground resulted in severe ankle injury. In June 25, 1977, lightning sent Roy Sullivan to a hospital bed with burns to his chest and abdomen. Roy just wanted to go fishing. At the age of 71, Sullivan committed suicide in the stomach - reportedly due to unrequited love.
In May 2003, during the assault on one of the slopes in Utah, Aaron's hand was crushed by a cobblestone. 5 days a man tried to free his hand. All these 127 hours, he not only suffered pain, but also tried to warm himself and not die from dehydration. When Aaron realized that the chances of his salvation were minimal, he took his dumb pocket knife and cut off his hand. Somehow coping with the traumatic shock and the risk of severe blood loss, he managed to walk many miles under the scorching sun. He wandered through the desert until he came across tourists from the Netherlands. They managed to call a rescue helicopter. In September 2004, his autobiographical book, 127 Hours. Between a rock and a hard place. ” In 2010, based on the materials of the book, the feature film “127 Hours” was directed by Danny Boyle
The tugboat Harrison worked on as a cook got into a storm at dawn 30 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. When the coke descended into the hold, the ship covered in a wave. It quickly sank. Nobody managed to escape more, but he rushed to the touch in the cabins and found what is called an air bag. After almost 3 days, Harrison ducked towards the rescuers when he saw the light of lanterns in the water. His salvation was successful.
Swedish resident Peter Skillberg survived in a snow-covered car for two months in a 30-degree frost without food. Two local residents on scooters raced along a meter-long snow covered forest road near the city of Umea. Suddenly, they discovered a car that looked like a giant snowdrift. They decided that someone had just left their old car intended for dumping in the forest. Nevertheless, it was decided to look inside, and Peter was found, who did not eat anything from December 19, 2011 to February 17, 2012. The man survived thanks to a car that became almost a needle and protected from severe frosts.
Boucher - vast areas in Australia, overgrown with low trees and shrubs. Matthew Allen suffers from a mental disorder, in 2012 he ran away from home and lived more than two months in the bush, at that time in Australia there was a period of heat waves. It was found by several locals who, during their campaign, met an emaciated teenager, completely disoriented, severely bitten by insects.
A British climber fell into an avalanche during the descent from Mont Blanc, from Mount Aguy di Bionassi in the Aosta Valley Valley in northern Italy. Swimming movements helped him stay on the surface of the snow and not drown until the complete stop of the 700-meter avalanche.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 killed thousands of people. In the city of Isinomaki, located in Miyagi Prefecture, a four-month-old girl was found under the rubble of one of the houses. The baby miraculously survived after spending three days without food and water among the debris. After the examination of the doctors, the girl was immediately given to her father, who no longer hoped to see her alive.
On April 24, 2013, the eight-story building of a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed. Of the more than three thousand people who were in the building, more than a thousand died. The last survivor, 19-year-old Reshma, was found on May 10, 17 days after the tragedy. Rescuers discovered her after hearing knocks from under the rubble.
In 2008, the 24-year-old British marine Matthew Krucher as part of a group, during an operation in Afghanistan, hit a banner and, in order to save his comrades, threw himself on a grenade. The grenade explosion itself fell on a backpack, and Matthew just went bleeding from his nose. In the same year, the infantryman was awarded the British George Cross.
A person does not know what strength he has until he finds himself in a situation in which he has no choice but to survive. The people we are talking about today have survived thanks to a lightning reaction, dedication, fortitude and faith in the best. These stories once again convince us that we need to enjoy life, not to lose hope and believe in luck.
10. Robert Evans in one day was twice shot down by various types of vehicles, but survived
The homeless Robert Evans was first hit by a bicycle in a car on a street in Boulder, Colorado. An ambulance took the victim and five hours later released him into the wild, immediately after that he was hit by a train with coal. And Robert was back in the same hospital again. Homeless escaped with only minor injuries.
9. Roy Sullivan was struck by lightning seven times
Roy Sullivan received the nickname "Lightning Rod Man" and was listed in the Guinness Book of Records, because he survived after seven lightning strikes. Since 1936 he worked as a ranger in the Shenandoah National Park. In 1942, lightning struck Roy Sullivan in the leg when he was on the fire tower, while his thumbnail came off. In 1969, as a result of a lightning strike while driving on a mountain road, Roy was left without eyebrows and lost consciousness. In 1970, another lightning strike led to an injury to the left shoulder, while the arm was paralyzed. This happened on the lawn of his own home. In 1972, due to a lightning strike in the territory of the administrative building of the forestry, Salivan's hair caught fire. After this incident, he always carried a container of water with him. On August 7, 1973, lightning struck Roy's head as he drove in a car through the territory of the forest entrusted to him. The hair caught fire again, the forester was thrown out of the car and his shoes were torn off his feet. On June 5, 1976, the sixth lightning strike on campground resulted in severe ankle injury. In June 25, 1977, lightning sent Roy Sullivan to a hospital bed with burns to his chest and abdomen. Roy just wanted to go fishing. At the age of 71, Sullivan committed suicide in the stomach - reportedly due to unrequited love.
8. Aron Lee Ralston independently amputated his arm to save himself
In May 2003, during the assault on one of the slopes in Utah, Aaron's hand was crushed by a cobblestone. 5 days a man tried to free his hand. All these 127 hours, he not only suffered pain, but also tried to warm himself and not die from dehydration. When Aaron realized that the chances of his salvation were minimal, he took his dumb pocket knife and cut off his hand. Somehow coping with the traumatic shock and the risk of severe blood loss, he managed to walk many miles under the scorching sun. He wandered through the desert until he came across tourists from the Netherlands. They managed to call a rescue helicopter. In September 2004, his autobiographical book, 127 Hours. Between a Rock and a Hard Place, was published. In 2010, based on the materials of the book, the feature film "127 Hours" was directed by Danny Boyle
7. Harrison Oken spent 60 hours under water in a sunken tugboat and survived
The tugboat Harrison worked on as a cook got into a storm at dawn 30 kilometers off the coast of Nigeria. When the coke descended into the hold, the ship covered in a wave. It quickly sank. Nobody managed to escape more, but he rushed to the touch in the cabins and found what is called an air bag. After almost 3 days, Harrison ducked towards the rescuers when he saw the light of lanterns in the water. His salvation was successful.
6. Peter Skillberg spent two months in a car in the snow
Swedish resident Peter Skillberg survived in a snow-covered car for two months in a 30-degree frost without food. Two local residents on scooters raced along a meter-long snow covered forest road near the city of Umea. Suddenly, they discovered a car that looked like a giant snowdrift. They decided that someone had just left their old car intended for dumping in the forest. Nevertheless, it was decided to look inside, and Peter was found, who did not eat anything from December 19, 2011 to February 17, 2012. The man survived thanks to a car that became almost a needle and protected from severe frosts.
5. Matthew Allen spent nine weeks in the bush.
Boucher - vast areas in Australia, overgrown with low trees and shrubs. Matthew Allen suffers from a mental disorder, in 2012 he ran away from home and lived more than two months in the bush, at that time in Australia there was a period of heat waves. It was found by several locals who, during their campaign, met an emaciated teenager, completely disoriented, severely bitten by insects.
4. British climber managed to survive during an avalanche in Mont Blanc
A British climber fell into an avalanche during the descent from Mont Blanc, from Mount Aguy di Bionassi in the Aosta Valley Valley in northern Italy. Swimming movements helped him stay on the surface of the snow and not drown until the complete stop of the 700-meter avalanche.
3. The 4-month-old girl survived after spending 3 days under the rubble.
The earthquake and tsunami in Japan in 2011 killed thousands of people. In the city of Isinomaki, located in Miyagi Prefecture, a four-month-old girl was found under the rubble of one of the houses. The baby miraculously survived after spending three days without food and water among the debris. After the examination of the doctors, the girl was immediately given to her father, who no longer hoped to see her alive.
2. Reshma Begum spent 17 days under the rubble of a garment factory
On April 24, 2013, the eight-story building of a garment factory in Bangladesh collapsed. Of the more than three thousand people who were in the building, more than a thousand died. The last survivor, 19-year-old Reshma, was found on May 10, 17 days after the tragedy. Rescuers discovered her after hearing knocks from under the rubble.
1. Matthew Croucher saved the soldier by covering himself with a grenade
In 2008, the 24-year-old British marine Matthew Krucher as part of a group, during an operation in Afghanistan, hit a banner and, in order to save his comrades, threw himself on a grenade. The grenade explosion itself fell on a backpack, and Matthew just went bleeding from his nose. In the same year, the infantryman was awarded the British George Cross.
