Flooding strands tens of thousands at Burning Man festival site

A Burning Man participant makes their way through the mud in Black Rock City, in the Nevada desert, after a rainstorm turned the site into mud September 2, 2023. Trevor Hughes

AP Reporters

Tens of thousands of partygoers at the Burning Man festival in the northern Nevada desert are stuck in mud a foot deep in places with no working toilets following an unusual late-summer storm.

Organisers closed the festival to vehicles after one death was reported. Officials have provided no details on the fatality.