Bodies of six people found at remote crossroads in Mojave desert in California

Official says they can not say how the people died or if they had been shot after deputies responding to wellness check find bodies

Deputies found the bodies of six people at a remote dirt crossroads in the Mojave desert in southern California, in a scene described as so grisly that TV stations blurred some of the images captured by their helicopter overhead.

San Bernardino county sheriff's deputies responding to a request for a wellness check reached the remote area off Highway 395 outside the community of El Mirage around 8.15pm and found five of the bodies. The sixth was found on Wednesday morning, a sheriff's spokesperson, Mara Rodriguez, said.