A five-year-old girl miraculously survived after she fell down a manhole while playing on a flooded street.
Horror CCTV footage shows how she waded down the submerged road with water rising from her ankles to her knees.
As lightning flashed, she suddenly disappeared as the ground swallowed her up.
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Seconds later, adults could be seen rushing towards the spot and feeling around for her under the water.
However, they began panicking when they realised the manhole was uncovered.
The emergency services were called but by the time firefighters arrived at the scene, the girl had surfaced and was fine.
The current had swept her about 30m (98ft) down the sewer and she had ended up in a neighbour’s back garden.
The young girl had managed to grab onto something and climb out after reaching an uncovered section of the sewer.
The occupants of the house took her in until she was reunited with her worried-sick father, as reported by Need To Know.
One told local media: “I heard a noise in the back garden and asked my wife, but she hadn’t heard anything.
“I went down to check, but it was too dark to see anything.
“Then the neighbour next door saw through the window and started shouting, ‘There’s a child there! There’s a child there!’
“I went back down, and there she was. She was calm at first but got flustered when her dad turned up, all shaken.”
The girl was taken to a local urgent treatment centre in Fortaleza, Brazil, where she spent a short while under observation.
The incident happened last Thursday (27 Feb).
Her father told local media: “It was a real scare, but thank God, she’s fine.”
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