A boy has been pulled from a sand dune on the shores of Lake Michigan after being trapped for hours.
The BBC reports he apparently fell into a hole at Mount Baldy, Indiana, USA, on Friday night and was buried under 3.4 metres of sand. An air pocket kept him alive.
Firefighters and police officers using excavators, dug for 3½ hours until they pulled the boy out at about 8pm.
"He isn't out of the woods yet, but ... they found him," the Michigan City News-Dispatch quoted La Porte County Deputy Coroner Mark Huffman as saying.
A statement from the hospital in Chicago where the child was being treated said: "He is listed in critical condition.''
According to the US National Park Service, Mount Baldy is the tallest moving sand dune in the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, which covers 25km of the southern shore of Lake Michigan.
