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PROVO, Utah (AP) -- Officials say they'll be sealing a 1,200 foot deep mine shaft where several Brigham Young University students were burned earlier this month playing with homemade gasoline bombs.
Al McKee of Ophir Minerals & Aggregate Group tells the Daily Herald his company plans to start collapsing and burying the hole this week. The work should be finished by the end of the week.
McKee says the site is now under 24-hour surveillance.
Six college students were treated for burns after they reportedly spilled a cooler of fuel into the abandoned mine shaft July 16 and it caught fire.
The shaft is in a remote area of Utah about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City. It had gained notoriety through YouTube videos showing people dropping fire bombs down the hole then exploding.
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