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LAS VEGAS (KLAS) – The Bureau of Land Management is investigating the discovery of dozens of piles of human cremains outside of Las Vegas, Nexstar's KLAS has confirmed.

A person who KLAS is allowing to be anonymous stumbled on what they described as about 70 piles of ashes on a dirt road outside of Searchlight, they said while providing a photo. Searchlight is a rural community about an hour south of the Las Vegas valley off U.S. 95. KLAS is granting this viewer anonymity at their request.

An official with BLM confirms to the station's 8 News Now Investigators that the piles are human cremains and that the department is actively investigating.

What are generally referred to as "ashes" are pulveriz

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