Italian boy survives being underwater for an extraordinarily long time

An Italian boy who fell into a canal in Milan has survived despite being held underwater for as long as 42 minutes. The 14-year-old, who is said to have jumped off a bridge in Cuggiono with five friends into water which was just 6.5-feet deep, was in hospital for a month, Time reported. His heart stopped beating while he was in the water and he was assumed dead, until it was restarted with a defibrillator.
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