NewsJune 15, 2017

PARIS -- Two teenage boys were rescued after three days underground in the skeleton-lined Catacombs of Paris. Police said they alerted firefighters early Wednesday the boys, ages 16 and 17, were missing. Police said teams of rescuers set out to search for the youths and found them beneath Paris a few hours later, suffering from slight hypothermia. About 66 feet below Paris, the catacombs hold the remains of 6 million people, transferred there starting in the 1700s as public graveyards closed...

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PARIS -- Two teenage boys were rescued after three days underground in the skeleton-lined Catacombs of Paris. Police said they alerted firefighters early Wednesday the boys, ages 16 and 17, were missing. Police said teams of rescuers set out to search for the youths and found them beneath Paris a few hours later, suffering from slight hypothermia. About 66 feet below Paris, the catacombs hold the remains of 6 million people, transferred there starting in the 1700s as public graveyards closed.

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