On Christmas Day, Mr Travis said there was also a "serious attempted escape".

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But Fateh Bashagha, the link man for the NTC between Nato and the Misrata rebels, said it was the Nato airstrike that first alerted the rebels to the colonel's attempted escape.

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On February 6, 1989, two East Germans, believing the shoot-to-kill order had been lifted, attempted to escape.

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The wooden pylon snapped and 32, 000-volt cables fell onto the vehicle, electrocuting the 26-year-old as he attempted to escape the burning 4X4.

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Officially, no one ever escaped from Alcatraz, but a handful of prisoners who attempted to escape were never found and remain listed as "missing and presumed drowned, " according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

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Two-time runner-up Cadel Evans, who is almost three minutes behind that trio in the overall standings after a dreadful first week, had attempted to escape on the first climb - Port d'Envalira - but was soon hauled back.

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Varia said she once visited a hospital in Kuwait that had an entire ward devoted to domestic workers who had spinal cord and back injuries from botched escape attempts or attempted suicide from high-rise residential buildings.

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He put his experience in the Marines to good use in The Great Escape, in which his character, Hilts, attempted to jump a barbwire fence on a motorcycle.

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