A 25-year-old man was killed in a freak accident in a plastic factory in India after he was swallowed up by a large bladed machine which he had been cleaning.

The horrific incident, caught on CCTV, happened at the factory located in Noida, a satellite city of Delhi, on Thursday morning.

According to police, the man, identified only as Wajid, was cleaning the machine when someone switched it on and he was sucked in.

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“Wajid reached work this morning in the factory which makes plastic products. He was cleaning a big-size machine which has blades in it.

“While he was cleaning, someone switched on the machine and soon Wajid was sucked inside,” a police official said.

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“By the time some of his colleagues realized and switched off the machine, he was dead,” the official added, local media reports.

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