3 people die during 2026 Burning Man festival
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Three Burning Man festivalgoers died during the weeklong psychedelic desert bacchanal that ended Monday, authorities said.
A man identified as Sampson Tshombe died Thursday after he was found on a street at the festival and taken to a temporary hospital on festival grounds, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement Tuesday.
The next day, Armando Ramirez, 51, of Truckee, Calif., died while en route from the festival to a Reno hospital, the Washoe County regional medical examiner’s office said in a statement.
The day after that, a man named Craig Mann was found dead in the trailer he was sharing with his partner, the Pershing County Sheriff’s Office said. Neither the Sheriff’s Office nor the medical examiner’s office provided the causes of death in any of the cases but said they didn’t suspect foul play. Mann was 60 years old, the Burning Man Project previously said in a statement.
Burning Man is an annual gathering held about 120 miles north of Reno in the Nevada desert. It was first held in 1986 and now hosts tens of thousands of people. Last year, a 37-year old man was found dead in a pool of blood at the festival. In 2024, a 39-year-old woman was found dead hours after the festival opened.
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