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After a drilling machine was damaged, rescuers are now manually boring into the mountain to rescue 41 workers who have been trapped for two weeks. The work will take 100 hours, officials say. In the meantime, they say the workers are safe, have access to essentials and some entertainment. CBC | World News
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Japan rescuers wade through flooded streets in search for typhoon survivors
Rescue crews dug through mudslides and searched near swollen rivers Monday after a typhoon caused serious damage in central and northern Japan, leaving dozens of people dead or missing. CBC | World News
Read More »Rescuers search debris after Iran-Iraq quake killing 430
Rescuers dug with their bare hands Monday through the debris of buildings felled by an earthquake that killed more than 430 people in the border region of Iran and Iraq, with nearly all the casualties occurring in an area rebuilt after their ruinous 1980s war. CBC | World News
Read More »Rescuers race to free young girl and others from rubble of Mexico quake
A delicate effort to reach a young girl buried in the rubble of her school stretched into a daylong vigil for Mexico, much of it broadcast across the nation as rescue workers still struggled in rain and darkness early Thursday trying to pick away unstable debris and reach her. CBC | World News
Read More »Mexico quake rescuers search school rubble as death toll hits 225
Desperate rescue workers scrabbled through rubble in a floodlit search on Wednesday for dozens of children feared buried beneath a Mexico City school, one of hundreds of buildings destroyed by the country’s most lethal earthquake in a generation. CBC | World News
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