Authorities are investigating a bloody death at the Burning Man festival as a possible homicide.

Officials in northern Nevada said “a Pershing County Sheriff’s Department Deputy was flagged down by an event participant who advised of a male subject lying on a pool of blood” Saturday night.

Assisted by the Bureau of Land Management, the sheriff’s office discovered a single white male lying on the ground in an area now occupied by a heavy law enforcement presence.

Authorities described the unidentified man, discovered on the grounds of the annual art festival shortly after 9 p.m., as “ obviously deceased .”

His body was brought to the Washoe County Medical Examiner’s Office. Officials hope to identify the person and his cause of death, which appeared to be the result of a “singular

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