National Park Service divers on Oct. 18 found human remains at Lake Mead the sixth set discovered since May in the severely dry lake outside Las Vegas.
Human skeletal remains have been found at Lake Mead near Las Vegas for the sixth time this year. A contractor found a human bone while diving in the Callville Bay area of the park in Nevada.
After a diver found what appeared to be a human bone in Lake Mead, the park searched the area and uncovered more human remains, the National Park Service confirmed Wednesday.
A diver who is a private business operator at Lake Mead earlier this month found a human bone, and a National Park Service dive team found more remains, confirming the sixth dead body found at the shrinking reservoir.
LAS VEGAS (AP) Divers have found more human remains at drought-stricken Lake Mead near Las Vegas, authorities said Thursday. A National Park Service dive team confirmed Oct. 18 that a bone found a day earlier at Callville Bay was part of “human skeletal remains” on the Nevada side of the Colorado River reservoir behind Hoover Dam, according to a statement from the Lake Mead National Recreation Area.