A shocking video emerged out of Brazil that showed a nine-year-old boy and his uncle being pulled under water and sucked into a flooded storm drain they were trying to clear of debris.

In the cell phone video, which went viral in the South American country, the boy and four men are seen playing in a pool of muddy flood water as they try to clear plants and other rubbish from a backed up storm drain. But the boy and his uncle are suddenly dragged underwater as the pipe's passageway clears up.

The boy's aunt, who filmed the potentially deadly scene, screams in horror as the two disappear under the brown water.

Another family member captured the frightening images from a different angle.

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