a 6-year-old boy playing near grandmother's house fell into a coverless manhole. He banged his head on the iron rim as he fell in and then drowned in the sewage.

The body of Malik McKinley Beverly was found around 9:00pm in the septic tank of a neighboring residence.

A Czech tractor driver died under eight tons of manure in a bizarre accident that has baffled his employers, local media reported.

Smyrna, SC -- A man drowned in a septic tank in Smyrna, South Carolina. Sheriff's Deputies say Ernest Lee Teague fell into the tank Tuesday afternoon while he was trying to unclog it.

A 4-year-old boy wandered away from his yard and drowned after falling into a sewage lagoon behind the house,

Brianna Morgan, who had just begun learning to crawl and walk, got into the bathroom, then pulled herself on top of her mother's jewelry box which was on the floor, police said. She apparently leaned over and fell headfirst into the toilet, which held six inches (15 centimeters) of water.

A teenager who drowned her newborn baby in a toilet will not be getting out of prison, a state parole board has ruled.

City workers took the dogs from the pound to the sewer plant and dropped their cages into the water

Julio Cesar Cuc spends his days blindly feeling his way through sewage and occasionally risking his life deep in the bowels of Mexico's capital.................. The risks are real, from minor infections to being stabbed with infected syringes. A diver drowned 10 years ago in a cascade unleashed when a pipe he was painstakingly clearing suddenly unblocked.

Autopsies confirmed Tuesday that two toddlers found dead in a sewage pond after disappearing from their home drowned, and the coroner said there appeared to be no sign of foul play.

Lucas employees Duane Howell, 29, and Verno Huggins, 58, were killed after they were overcome by methane gas in a residential Lexington County septic tank. Howell died in the tank June 29 and Huggins died several days later at a hospital.