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Man Whose Body Was Found in Montana Mine Pit Identified

Shane Waples had been the man found dead on May 18

By Justin Franz

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Rosebud County Sheriff Allen Fulton has identified a man found dead in a Montana mine pit.

The Billings Gazette reported Thursday that 58-year-old Shane Waples had been the man found dead on May 18.

Fulton says Waples did not work at the mine. His cause of death remains under investigation and a toxicology report is pending. Officials say the death does not appear to be of a criminal nature.

Waples had been the second body recovered this month in the Rosebud Mine. On May 6, a coal truck driver died after backing his vehicle over a berm into the deep pit.

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