On April 24 around 3 pm in Gyeonggi-do, Namyangju, the 38-year-old man got sucked into an automated waste collection machine and fell into the underground pipes. 

After 2 hours of searching, the emergency crew found the man dead at a location of 100m from the machine. 

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Cho revealed to be a worker who was at the site to check on the machine after receiving reports of malfunction. 

The automated waste collection machine sucks in waste like a vacuum and transfers it straight to a trash center through underground pipes.