Authorities in Nevada are investigating a death at the site of the Burning Man festival, where thousands of attendees remained stranded after flooding from storms swept through the Nevada desert in the United States.
Organisers closed vehicular access to the counter-culture festival in the western US state on Saturday night.
Attendees trudged through mud, many barefoot or wearing plastic bags on their feet.
The revellers were urged to shelter in place and conserve food, water and other supplies.
The Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said the death happened during the event in Black Rock City, but offered few details, declining to reveal the identity of the deceased person or the suspected cause of death, local TV channel KNSD reported.
On the Burning Man website, the event’s organisers encouraged participants to remain calm and suggested that the festival is built to endure conditions like the flooding. They said that mobile phone trailers were being dropped in several locations on Saturday night, and that they would be briefly making the internet available overnight.
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