At least 58 people have been killed and more than 500 injured after at least one gunman opened fire on concert-goers on the popular Las Vegas Strip in the US state of Nevada. The mass shooting took place late on Sunday outside a building at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino during the Route 91 country festival. More than 22,000 people were in attendance at the concert. Police named the shooter as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, who they said fired into the crowd from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel.
The suspected attacker was later found dead in his hotel room, a police statement said. Cole Watson, who was at the concert with his wife and kids, said: "At first it sounded like someone was setting off a whole lot of fire crackers".
He said when they "realised it was gunfire and everybody started running”.
"The scene was insane - it was absolute chaos," Watson told Al Jazeera by telephone.
Wade Millward, a journalist with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, told Al Jazeera that the attack took place while country-music star Jason Aldean was performing.
During a press conference, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo said that at least 58 people had been killed and more 500 were injured, but added that the precise number of victims could not be given. Two on-duty police officers were shot, one of them is still in critical condition, Lombardo said.
Lombardo added that police are still looking for a possible accomplice, who is wanted for questioning.
Source: Al Jazeera
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