Student rescued after 3,700-mile SOS alert

Courtesy Topix - Unix  Fri, 09/05/2008 - 20:21

A British student who was injured after falling off a horse in a remote part of Russia was rescued yesterday after sending a distress signal which was picked up 3,700 miles away by an RAF base in Scotland.


 

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