Watch: Man buried alive after accidentally slipping into pothole in MP

An apparently drunk man who fell into a pit was buried alive when road construction workers failed to spot him in the dark and built over him with sand and boulders in Katni district of Madhya Pradesh, officials said on Monday. The 45-year-old was found buried at the road construction site in remote Salaiya village, officials said. Construction work was going on during Friday night when the man, identified as Latori Burman, is suspected to have fallen into the pit in a drunken state. At the time, a dumper was unloading sand and boulders nearby. Burman apparently got stuck beneath the sand and boulders, according to an investigation at the site. Police suspect the sand and boulders were spread by an earth moving machine and the site was levelled by a road roller.