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A 26-year-old University of Virginia medical student died early Thursday after he became stuck upside down in a Utah cave for almost 28 hours.

Rescue teams had been working for hours but were unable to free John Jones, of Stansbury Park, Utah.

Jones was part of a group of 11 people exploring the passages of Nutty Putty Cave, a popular spelunking site about 80 miles south of Salt Lake City. The 6-foot-tall, 190-pound Jones got stuck with his head at an angle below his feet Tuesday night.

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