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Man survives trench collapse


A man was buried from the waist down inside an underground pipe when the steep dirt walls of a deep trench collapsed around him last night. He was installing the pipe system at a private property on Landings Rd, Mangere when he noticed the banks of a deep hole starting to give way.

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