India, Sept. 1 -- A man was discovered dead in a "pool of blood" at the Burning Man festival Saturday night, August 30. He was found just as a huge human-shaped wooden effigy was being burnt in the Nevada desert, authorities said.

The man's body was found around 9 pm when an attendee flagged down a sheriff's deputy and claimed they saw "a male subject lying in a pool of blood," the Reno Gazette Journal reported. The Pershing County Sheriff's Office is probing the death as a homicide.

The sheriff's office said the person was found while the "Man," a massive human-shaped wooden sculpture, was being torched at the center of the festival grounds in Black Rock City. The man was reportedly pronounced dead at the scene. His body was taken to t...