Las Vegas shooting: gunman kills more than 50 and injures 500

Police identify attacker as Stephen Paddock, ‘64-year-old white male’

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More than 50 people have been shot dead and more than 500 injured by a lone gunman who fired hundreds of rounds of ammunition during a Las Vegas music festival in the largest mass shooting in US history.

“We determined there was a shooter on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay (Resort and Casino),” Sheriff Joseph Lombardo of Clark County told reporters. “Right now, we believe it’s a sole actor, a lone-wolf-type actor.”

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