LAS VEGAS — Per week after a decades-old physique was present in receding Lake Mead, authorities in Las Vegas are attempting to determine a second set of newly found human stays.
Two sisters from the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson had been paddle boarding on the drought-stricken Colorado River reservoir once they noticed bones Saturday within the Callville Bay space of the lake.
Lindsey Melvin informed KLAS-TV that they thought at first it was a bighorn sheep, however noticed what gave the impression to be a human jaw and known as park rangers. The Nationwide Park Service confirmed in a press release that the bounds discovered had been human.
Investigators will not be treating the case as a murder, Las Vegas police mentioned. The stays are presently with the Clark County Coroner’s Workplace.
The invention got here after a physique in a barrel was discovered Could 1 alongside newly uncovered shoreline of the lake shaped by Hoover Dam between Nevada and Arizona.
In that case, police mentioned the physique was a person who had been shot, most likely between the mid-Seventies and the early Eighties as a result of he was carrying footwear manufactured throughout that interval.
Drought has dropped the Lake Mead water stage a lot that Las Vegas’ uppermost water consumption turned seen two weeks in the past.