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Death toll rises to at least 50; 'no reports of South Africans killed in Las Vegas shooting'

───   16:48 Mon, 02 Oct 2017

Death toll rises to at least 50; 'no reports of South Africans killed in Las Vegas shooting' | News Article
Photo: Los Angeles Times

A gunman killed at least 50 people and wounded more than 400 at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, raining down rapid fire from the 32nd floor of a hotel for several minutes before he was shot dead by police.


The SABC further reports the death toll, which police emphasized was preliminary and tentative, would make the attack the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, eclipsing last year’s massacre of 49 people at an Orlando night club.

Thousands of panicked people fled the scene, in some cases trampling one another as law enforcement officers scrambled to locate and kill the gunman. Shocked concert goers, some with blood on their clothes, wandered the streets after the attack.

According to News24 the department of international relations and co-operation (Dirco) says it is still trying to confirm whether any South Africans were killed or injured in the Las Vegas shooting that left at least 50 people dead and scores more injured.


"We have checked [and], amongst [those killed] and the injured, there are no reports of foreigners involved so far," department spokesperson Clayson Monyela told News24.


More than 200 people were injured in what US media say is the worst mass shooting in the country's history.


Monyela said, according to the information they had received from the local authorities, it appeared that mostly Americans had been involved in the incident.


The Associated Press (AP) reported that authorities had received reports of an active shooter near the Route 91 Harvest Festival late on Sunday.


The publication said many people had been taken to hospital following the incident at a music festival on the Las Vegas strip.


The gunman was identified by authorities as Nevada resident Stephen Paddock, AP reported.


News24 and SABC


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