By Associated Press - Thursday, May 24, 2018

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Police say a 12-year-old boy was severely burned while making camp burners with a church group in Spanish Fork.

KSL-TV reports the boy was flown to a hospital Wednesday night after receiving significant burns to his hands and arms.

Spanish Fork Police Sgt. Cade Harding says a flammable liquid used in the homemade stoves ignited and caught the boy’s clothes on fire. He says the boy had less severe burns on other areas of his body.

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Harding says a man also received burns to his hands and legs.

Authorities did not release the boy’s name.

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Information from: KSL-TV, http://www.ksl.com/

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