A 13-year-old girl who fell down a storm drain was swept underground for a kilometre before locals hauled her to safety two hours later.
Incredible footage of the rescue shows a group of men pulling the shaken but mostly unharmed girl from the hole in the ground, as onlookers cheered.
The girl, named in reports as Wellen Cristina Tavares dos Santos, had vanished down the first hole in Maceio, north-eastern Brazil, during heavy rain on Monday.
She had been walking to school when she slipped and got sucked down into the storm drain.
A young man tried to rescue her but ran into difficulty himself and had to be rescued by his brother, as seen in a second video.
The girl was then swept away underground by the current, as passers-by called the Fire Department for help.
Firefighters later said she managed to survive because she was not completely submerged and was able to continue breathing.
The teen was amazingly swept for a kilometre through the drain system before she ended up trapped in an underground rainwater harvesting tank.
Locals heard the girl's cries for help and came to her aid.
After she was pulled to safety, she was handed over to paramedics, who provided first aid.
She was then taken to a local hospital in a stable condition.
She suffered minor injuries and hypothermia but was otherwise unharmed in the accident.
