Police are seeking help identifying the victim in what is being investigated as a homicide during this year’s Burning Man Festival held in the Nevada Desert. The victim was discovered on Saturday, August 30, just as the human-shaped wooden structure called the “Man” was beginning to burn, a tradition at the annual festival held in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. According to a statement released by Pershing County Sheriff Jerry Allen on Sunday, local and federal authorities responded to a report of a man on the ground lying in a pool of blood at the event’s campsite.

“Although this act appears to be a singular crime, all participants should always be vigilant of their surroundings and acquaintances,” Allen said in the statement. “There is no further information available at this time, b

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