Stuck on sheet of ice, 134 rescued in baskets
China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-09 07:41
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US Coast Guard crewmen walk across frozen Lake Erie near Crane Creek State Park in Oak Harbor, Ohio, as they attempt to reach about 100 fishermen on Saturday. AP |
Cell phones rang and word was passed to fishermen out on a distant stretch of Lake Erie's iced-over waters: A crack had widened in the ice, trapping everyone on a kilometers-wide floe that was drifting away from the Ohio shoreline.
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