Federal investigators are reportedly searching for answers after more than 300 piles of cremated human remains were discovered in the desert near Las Vegas.

The discovery was first reported after a local man stumbled upon the remains in July outside Searchlight, Nevada, nearly an hour south of Vegas, KLAS reported.

By August, officials from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) had confirmed that the piles were human.

The remains, pulverized bone fragments known as "cremains," were said to have been found spread across a desolate stretch of land on the outskirts of the city.

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On Wednesday, crews from Palm Mortuaries and Cemeteries removed approximately 315 piles of the cremains

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