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Rescuers recover migrants' wedding rings lost at Mediterranean Sea

On November 9, a migrant rescue boat came across a red backpack floating in the Mediterranean alongside other remains from a shipwreck that took place weeks before. The rucksack, covered with sea snails and reeking of petrol, contained two wedding rings, inscribed with the names Ahmed and Doudou.

Beach SOS saves men stranded on tiny Micronesian island

Three Micronesian sailors stranded on a tiny, remote island in the western Pacific have been saved after rescuers spotted their SOS message on a beach.

Rescuers find 14 bodies after building collapse in India

Rescuers found 14 bodies and pulled out 11 survivors as they began winding down operations at the site of a dilapidated building that collapsed in India’s financial capital of Mumbai, an official said Wednesday.

Two rescuers drown after boat flips over off Australian coast

Two rescuers drowned off the coast of Australia’s Victoria state on Sunday when their boat flipped over during an attempt to help a man who was swept into the ocean from a rock ledge, police said.

Rescuers recover body of Spanish boy who fell down well

Rescuers early on Saturday found the body of a two-year-old boy who fell into a deep well nearly two weeks ago in southern Spain, triggering an unprecedented rescue operation fraught with glitches that had kept the country on tenterhooks.

French rescuers search for bodies in debris of Indonesian quake disaster

A team of French rescue experts began hunting through a huge expanse of debris on the outskirts of the Indonesian city of Palu on Saturday, looking for hands, feet or any body parts of earthquake victims sticking out of the mud.

Rescuers arrive for 3,000 stranded after Laos dam collapse

Rescue teams from China and Thailand headed on Wednesday into a remote part of landlocked Laos, where more than 3,000 people were stranded after a dam collapse sent a deluge of water across a swathe of villages, domestic media said.

Rescuers retrieve bodies of everyone trapped under rubble in China hotel

Rescuers have retrieved the bodies of everyone who lost their lives when a landslide slammed into a hotel in central China.

Rescuers continue search for victims in Pakistan building collapse

Search and rescue efforts continue at the site of a building collapse near the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore to save some 100 people still trapped under the rubble.

Indonesian rescuers find 54 bodies at plane crash site

Rescuers have discovered the bodies of all the 54 people, who were on board a passenger plane that went down during a flight in bad weather in Indonesia’s rugged east over the weekend.