Burning Man: Police investigating death during heavy rain

An probe has been launched into the decease of a idiosyncratic during torrential rainfall astatine the Burning Man festival successful the US authorities of Nevada.

No further details person been fixed astir the circumstances of their death.

Thousands of radical stay stranded astatine the lawsuit aft the atrocious upwind turned the crushed to deep, slippery mud. Roads successful and retired are closed arsenic vehicles tin hardly thrust connected it.

Burning Man is held successful the Black Rock Desert, which is usually adust and dusty.

"The Pershing County Sheriff's Office is presently investigating a decease which occurred during this rainfall event," the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said connected Saturday, adding that the person's household had been notified.

The dense rainfall has made it hard for radical to permission by conveyance and the sheriff's bureau said immoderate attempts to bash this had made the crushed adjacent worse.

Further rainfall is expected and the authorities person said that it could beryllium respective days earlier the crushed dries up capable for radical to leave.

For this reason, radical person been told to conserve their nutrient and water.

The festival's toilets are besides retired of use, revellers say, due to the fact that the work vehicles cannot thrust connected the mud to bare them.

The yearly festival is 1 of America's astir well-known arts and civilization events.

While it does diagnostic music, its organisers picture it arsenic a "cultural movement" successful which participants make a impermanent metropolis and are expected to beryllium mostly self-sufficient portion they are there.

The festival usually features elephantine interactive creation installations and a immense woody antheral that is burnt astatine the extremity of the event.

But 1 antheral astatine the festival told the BBC astir events person been called off.

Nonetheless, galore radical were trying to marque the champion of it, dancing successful the mud to techno music.

One reveller, Shervin Natan, told the BBC that contempt the muddy conditions, "the party's inactive going, it's concern arsenic usual."

"There are worse conditions than this, everyone is helping each different out, that's what Burning Man is each about," helium added.

Burning Man was founded successful June 1986 and was archetypal held successful Nevada's Black Rock Desert successful 1990.

Tickets tin beryllium precise hard to get and festival-goers sometimes interrogation to get into fashionable camps and person to beryllium their committedness to its ideals.

Some groups walk the full twelvemonth readying their camp, artwork and theme.

But this twelvemonth determination had been worries astir the upwind and tickets were changing hands connected the secondary marketplace astatine beneath marketplace rate.

Additional reporting by James Clayton successful San Francisco and Azadeh Moshiri.