Chloride, Ariz.
The desert hillsides are known as a risky playground, where a derelict mine shaft swallowed two sisters out riding an all-terrain vehicle, killing one over the Labor Day weekend."I don't go anywhere off a trail here," said Bill Keller, who has lived in Chloride for 10 years and goes ATV riding in the hills regularly. "I am totally amazed that it hasn't happened before."
The terrain and clumps of brush concealed the mine near a dirt road in the hills visible from the home of 13-year-old Rikki Howard and her 10-year-old sister, Casie Hicks.
The girls were riding an ATV early Saturday evening when they plunged into the 125-foot-deep mine shaft. Their father was riding ahead of them and didn't see them fall. He alerted authorities after they vanished, but the darkness hindered the search.
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