Flooding strands tens of thousands at Burning Man festival site

Many are now leaving the site, officials said (Maxar Technologies via AP)

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.