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Here are some comparable improbable survival stories from earthquakes, building collapses or mine accidents
February 5, 2001 - India: Two victims of a quake in the western state of Gujarat are recovered alive in the ruins of their house by rescue workers, 10 days after the disaster which left 25,000 dead.
January 7, 2004 - Iran: A 56-year-old man is pulled alive from the ruins, 13 days after a quake which left 43,000 dead in Bam in the south-east.
December 12, 2005 - Pakistan: A woman, 40, is pulled out alive from the rubble of her house in Kashmir, an incredible two months after a quake ravaged the region.
April 25, 2006 - Australia: Two Australian miners are brought to the surface after two weeks trapped underground in a gold mine at Beaconsfield on the Australian island of Tasmania.
July 13, 2009 - China: Three miners are rescued after 25 days trapped in a flooded mine in Guizhou province in southwest China, chewing on coal and drinking filthy water. Thirteen other miners died in the accident.
January 27, 2010 - Haiti: A young girl of 16 is pulled alive from the ruins, 15 days after a violent quake in Port-au-Prince which left between 200,000 and 250,000 dead. Several days earlier a young man of 25 had already been found alive.
On February 9, a 28-year-old Haitian man is rescued after surviving 28 days buried in rubble after the January 12 earthquake.
April 5, 2010 - China: 115 workers are pulled out of a Chinese coal mine at Wanjialing in the northern province of Shanxi, over a week after being trapped by flooding. They survived by eating tree bark, sawdust, paper and coal.
October 13, 2010 - Chile: 33 miners, trapped for 69 days more than 600 metres (1,969 feet) underground at a gold and copper mine at San Jose in the north are brought safe and sound to the surface after a spectacular rescue operation.
March 20, 2011 - Japan: A 16-year-old boy and his disabled grandmother, 80, are rescued nine days after the quake and tsunami which devastated the north-east of the country and in which almost 19,000 died.
May 19, 2012 - China: A miner, trapped in the depths of a coal mine for 17 days in the north-east after a flood, is found alive after a disaster in which ten other miners died and three were listed as missing.
May 10, 2013 - Bangladesh: A woman is pulled alive from the ruins of a nine-storey garment factory complex in Bangladesh more than 16 days after it collapsed and killed more than 1,000 people.
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