A man died after falling into a manure tanker at a New York farm. A second man who tried to help also fell in and died.

Two men died after falling into a manure tanker at a farm in upstate New York, police said.

It happened just after 11 a.m. Thursday at a farm in the central New York town of Kirkland. One of the men tried to retrieve a piece of equipment that had fallen into the tanker, the Kirkland Police Department said, according to WKTV.

"He passed out and fell inside of the tanker," and then the second man also passed out and fell in as he tried to help, police said.