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
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.
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