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Liam Buckler

Man drowns after being stuck up to his waist in mud as horrified friends look on

A man died after he was stuck up to his waist in mud - as his desperate friends looked on in horror.

Zachary Porter, 20, from Illinois, was walking on tidal mud flats in an Alaska estuary with his friends on Sunday evening when he became submerged as the tide came in.

Friends and volunteers desperately tried to save Zachary but it was tragically too late.

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