Both the shooter and the officer survived bullet wounds, authorities said. .
Gunaratnam swam 500 metres across Tyrifjorden lake to survive, bullets hitting the water around her as she fled.
South Sudan teen starts anew after surviving bullet in the neck South Sudan, 15 September 2015 – "Even for a million pounds, I won't go back".
Obeidi, a balding, middle-aged man with a salesman's cheerfulness, has received death threats, and his brother-in-law survived three bullets in the head.
As depicted by Mr. Rathbone, he emerges as an almost folkloric figure from the pages of a novel: someone who swam the Mississippi, survived assassins' bullets and was once "put against the wall to be shot but pardoned at the last moment".
The trail of evidence investigators are following suggests, so far at least, that both emotional problems and nascent extremism spurred Major Hasan, who survived the bullets of the police officers who stopped him and now is charged with 13 counts of murder.
In a tragic irony, a man who survived the bullets and shells of the trenches, was shot dead while making an arrest on the streets of Vancouver.
There he meets his guide Alex, a man who survived fourteen bullets to the face.
As a school kid, Motsamayi survived police bullets in the 1976 Soweto Uprising and graduated to organizing clandestine meetings for the African National Congress (ANC).
Many other Olympic athletes met with similar adversity -- there is the Somali runner who survived wartime bullets that whipped past as he trained; or the Japanese dressage-rider who achieved the astonishing feat of competing at age 71 (and still only the second-oldest athlete to compete).
