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Las Vegas Mandala Bay: Scenes of horror

The deadliest mass shooting on US soil since 1949.

Police and rescue personnel gather at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue after a mass shooting at a country music festival. [Ethan Miller/Getty Images]
Police and rescue personnel gather at the intersection of Las Vegas Boulevard and Tropicana Avenue after a mass shooting at a country music festival. [Ethan Miller/Getty Images]
2 Oct 2017
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At least 50 people were killed and more than 400 injured when a gunman opened fire at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down bullets from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before shooting himself dead, according to police.

The death toll, which police emphasised was preliminary, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in US history, eclipsing last year’s massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub.

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 firecrackers”.

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.

Some 22,000 people were in the crowd when the man opened fire, sending panicked people fleeing the scene, in some cases trampling one another, as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate and kill the gunman. Shocked concertgoers, some with blood on their clothes, wandered the streets after the attack.

At least 406 people were taken to area hospitals with injuries, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police said.

A man in a wheelchair is taken away from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.[David Becker/Getty Images]
A man in a wheelchair is taken away from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival.[David Becker/Getty Images]
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A crowd of people at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard in Las Vegas, Nevada. [David Becker/Getty Images]
A crowd of people at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard in Las Vegas, Nevada. [David Becker/Getty Images]
A pair of cowboy boots lies in the street outside the concert venue. [Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters]
A pair of cowboy boots lies in the street outside the concert venue. [Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters]
FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. [Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters]
FBI agents confer in front of the Tropicana hotel-casino after a mass shooting during a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, US. [Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun/Reuters]
People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard. [David Becker/Getty Images]
People run from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire was heard. [David Becker/Getty Images]
Police run to cover at the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. [John Locher/AP Photo]
Police run to cover at the scene of a shooting near the Mandalay Bay resort and casino on the Las Vegas Strip. [John Locher/AP Photo]
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People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire. [David Becker/Getty Images]
People scramble for shelter at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival after gunfire. [David Becker/Getty Images]
A woman sits on a kerb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at the festival. [John Locher/AP Photo]
A woman sits on a kerb at the scene of a shooting outside of a music festival along the Las Vegas Strip. Multiple victims were being transported to hospitals after a shooting late Sunday at the festival. [John Locher/AP Photo]
Police officers stop a man who drove down Tropicana Avenue, near Las Vegas Boulevard, which had been closed after a mass shooting at a country music festival. [Ethan Miller/Getty Images]
Police officers stop a man who drove down Tropicana Avenue, near Las Vegas Boulevard, which had been closed after a mass shooting at a country music festival. [Ethan Miller/Getty Images]

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