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A man was found dead in a “pool of blood” at the Burning Man festival Saturday night – just as a massive human-shaped wooden effigy was being torched in the Nevada desert, according to authorities. The body was discovered around 9 p.m. when a festival goer flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and reported seeing “a male subject lying in a pool of blood,” the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release Sunday. Authorities are now investigating the death as a homicide. The grisly scene was uncovered while the “Man,” a towering human-shaped wooden sculpture at the center of...

A man was found dead Saturday in a suspected homicide at the Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert. The man, described as a white adult man, was found “lying on the ground” and deceased after 9 p.m. on Saturday, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said Sunday. The discovery was made while the “Man,” a large human-shaped wooden sculpture at the center of the festival, was engulfed in flames. A participant flagged down a sheriff’s deputy and reported seeing “a male subject lying in a pool of blood,” in Black Rock City, the sheriff’s office said. Deputies, along with Bureau...