Nigerian Student Rescued After Being Trapped Between 2 Walls For 72 Hours

NEW YORK (CNN) -- A 19-year-old
New York University student is
recovering after being stuck in a
two-foot gap between an NYR dorm
and a garage.
Vongtau was conscious and talking
to fire fighters as he was being
wheeled away to an ambulance. For
almost two days, the NYU student
was trapped between a parking
garage and an 18 story apartment
building. The area where Vogntau
was found is a space between two
walls only two feet wide.
Firefighters had to break through a
cinderblock wall in the parking
garage to reach Vogntau. The rescue
information lasted an hour and a
half and not a moment too soon for
Vogntau.
Vogntau disappeared early Saturday
morning. Someone pulled the fire
alarm in his NYU apartment building.
Friends said when everyone was
leaving the apt building, they noticed
Vogntau running back in and that
was the last time he was seen.
His friends got worried after he was
a no call, no show. They went door
to door asking people. They also say
they tried to file a missing person's
report with police, but were told
Vogntau had to be missing for at
least 72 hours. Finally they
suggested NYU security check the
roof of the building. They looked
over the edge and saw Vogntau
wedged between two walls.
It's believed Vongtau may have
fallen through a 5th floor window,
but for now it's just a theory in a
bizarre accident that left an NYU
student in a precarious position for
nearly two days in the cold.

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