A woman crushed under a 16-tonne landslide of condensed milk in a supermarket has told of the agony of being buried alive under thousands of tins.

Horrific footage of the bizarre accident in Canoas, in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, on 9th March opens with the shopper pushing a trolley in a budget store.

But as a member of staff with a forklift loads a 25-foot-high shelf with a crate of condensed milk it topples over without warning.

As it comes crashing down it lands on top of the shopper burying her beneath the burst crate as others claw at the cans trying to free her.

She was left with a crushed pelvis, lower spine and a broken wrist.

Astonishingly her six-month-old son sitting in the trolley escaped without a scratch while her husband suffered a broken right arm.

Now two months after the crushing on 9th March the woman, who asked remain to anonymous, says she is still in agony from her injuries.

She told local media: "I live with pain and with the uncertainty of whether I will return to normal."

After the accident she was rushed to hospital with injuries to her back and neck but says she still cannot sit for long, walk far, or return to work.

Medical scans have shown spinal damage and doctors are continuing to assess the long-term effects.

She said: "I no longer have my life that I had before. Today I live in pain.

"The injuries are still being treated but I'm not not sure that I will return to normal or be able to do things for my son, my home, the routine I had before.

"I have limitations today. I can do nothing like before. I'm living one day at a time.”

Bosses at the Via Atacadista supermarket, where the incident occurred, said they have since fired the employee responsible and promised to cover the victim's medical bills.

(MJ Leidig/newsX)