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A murder probe has been launched after a man was found ‘lying in a pool of blood’ at the popular Burning Man festival.
Up to 80,000 people descended on the Black Rock Desert of Nevada to take part in festivities that centred around the Burning of the Man ceremony – where an effigy reaching around 80ft tall is set alight to create an extraordinary bonfire.
But as the flames began to tear through the sculpture on Saturday (August 30), a deputy of the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office was informed of a possible homicide.
The force has since issued a statement, which reads: “On August 30, 2025, at approximately 9:14 p.m., while the ‘Man’ was beginning to burn, a Pershing County Sheriff’s Office Deputy was flagged down by an event participant who advised of a male subject lying in a pool of blood.
“Pershing County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) Deputies and Bureau Land Management (BLM) Rangers immediately responded to the campsite and found a single white adult male lying on the ground, obviously deceased.
A man was found dead at this year’s Burning Man Festival in the Black Rock Desert, Nevada (Getty Images/Maxar)
“PCSO Deputies, BLM Rangers and Burning Man Project Black Rock Rangers created a perimeter around the area, and PCSO and BLM began investigating the scene.”
