Dictionary / Vocabulary / 生き埋め
いきうめ
burying alive
common word Also written 生埋め
我々が通り過ぎた教会は、その五分後に大地震で崩壊して、100人以上が生き埋めとなった。
The church we went past crumbled five minutes later due to a huge earthquake, and more than a hundred churchgoers were buried alive.