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The death of a man found in a "pool of blood" as a giant human-shaped effigy began to burn on Saturday at the annual Burning Man art and music festival in the northwestern Nevada desert is being investigated as a homicide, authorities said.

The body was discovered just before 9:15 p.m. when a festivalgoer flagged down a deputy at the desert gathering and reported seeing a man "lying in a pool of blood," the Pershing County Sheriff's Office said Sunday.

Deputies and rangers with the Bureau of Land Management immediately responded to the campsite and "found a single White adult male lying on the ground, obviously deceased," the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities are investigating the death in the Black Rock Desert, about 11

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