527 injured in music festival attack
Guns, explosives and ammunition found
What we know so far
At least 59 people have been killed and 527 injured in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
Police have named Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman.
Police found a huge arsenal of 42 firearms, explosives and ammunition in both his Las Vegas hotel room and Mesquite home.
Experts believe an accessory known as a bump-stock was probably used in the attack. It modifies a semi-automatic weapon to fire at an automatic rate.
There is still no known motive behind the attack, or any known links between Paddock and other organisations.
The suspect’s girlfriend was named as a person of interest, but police said he acted alone and that authorities would interview the woman after she returned from a trip to Tokyo.
President Donald Trump said he would visit Las Vegas on Wednesday and called the shooting “an act of pure evil”.
Late night chat show hosts in the US have expressed outrage at the inability of US politicians to control guns and stand up to the powerful National Rifle Association. Theresa May said the UK could not understand US gun laws.
Hoaxes and fake news spread rapidly online, in some cases with boosts from Facebook and Google algorithms.
What we know so far about the Las Vegas shooting
Key information about the attack that left at least 58 dead and scores injured at a festival near the Mandalay Bay casino
Survivor Murrell Sailers gave a vivid description of trying to shelter from the shots. Speaking to AP he said: “You could just hear the rounds almost like creeping up on you. Doosh, doosh, doosh. It feels like hunting you down."
Theresa May has expressed incredulity about US gun laws.
Speaking to LBC radio she said: “I think we can’t understand it because of course we have a different approach to guns. We have very strong gun laws here, and we tightened the gun laws initially after Dunblane because people saw the atrocity which took place there and we took action as a government.
“But of course America has a different approach to guns. It’s up to them to see what they will do now, but I think most people in the UK will say ‘If you look at what’s happened here, surely they will want to do something’.”
Asked whether she was aware of any Britons killed or injured in the bloodbath, she said: “At the moment, I don’t believe there were any British casualties, but there were certainly British people in the area who will have witnessed what was absolutely an appalling attack, completely senseless, random attack, by an individual who I understand had quite an arsenal of weapons in the hotel room.”
Former Donald Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka has rounded on Hillary Clinton after she called for more gun controls in the wake of the attack.
The former Democratic presidential candidate urged politicians to stand up to the powerful National Rifle Association which is currently lobbying Congress to support measures to allow gun owners to use silencers.
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The crowd fled at the sound of gunshots.
Imagine the deaths if the shooter had a silencer, which the NRA wants to make easier to get.
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