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Harrison Moore & Tanveer Mann

Man buried alive for three minutes after truck driver accidentally dumps gravel on him

This is the horrifying moment a man was buried alive for three minutes under a pile of gravel.

The man was completely engulfed from head to toe after a truck driver accidentally tipped the gravel at a construction site in Nairobi, Kenya, unaware he was standing directly behind it.

Colleagues battled for three minutes to try and pull the man from the gravel during the incident on Tuesday.

One man grabbed his legs - which were sticking out the gravel mound - while others used spades to get to him.

The man was completely engulfed from head to toe (Dicken Muchena / SWNS.COM)

Shocking footage shows the unconscious man being pulled from the gravel before he finally came round after having first aid treatment and CPR.

Geography teacher Dicken Muchena, 27, who filmed the footage, said: "This team was transporting the gravel to a construction site when the driver of the tipper lowered the material without knowing that one of them was behind it.

Colleagues battled to try to free him from the gravel (Dicken Muchena / SWNS.COM)

"The victim was buried from the head and for more than three minutes all those around struggled to remove him from the material.

"I was shocked too, but decided to take the video amidst the agony.

"After a while he was removed and we conducted first aid on him. He finally regained his consciousness by God's grace."

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