Man rescued from frozen well after 52 hours

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A Serbian man survived in a 5-meter-deep (16-foot) frozen nicely for greater than two days, till he was found by his neighbor, who referred to as the police, the BBC reported. 

Jezdimir Milic, who was reportedly affected by poor imaginative and prescient, fell right into a nicely within the village of Smoljinac whereas coming back from grocery-shopping on Sunday. The properly was freezing at -20 Celsius, following a snowstorm that has gripped Serbia and different elements of northern Europe. 

Milic's neighbor Goran Markovic found him when he observed a bag of groceries mendacity close to the properly. Markovic later defined the incident to an area television station. 

Milic, being hailed the "miracle man," is receiving remedy for hypothermia and abrasions. Hypothermia has already claimed six lives in Poland.  

And additional snow-caused deaths have been reported in Italy, Greece and Turkey. 

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