In Las Vegas there was a shooting at a country concert. There are dead, numerous injured persons were taken to hospitals. A suspected assailant is out of action.
At a country concert in the US gambling metropolis Las Vegas, at least one gunman shot around and injured many people, reports the police. A supposed shooter was thus overwhelmed. Whether the suspect was killed or injured is still unclear.
At least two people were killed according to a hospital spokeswoman. More than 24 people were taken to hospitals with firearms. 14 of them are therefore in critical condition. The concert was home to about 30,000 visitors.
The police called on the people through Twitter to avoid the area near the casino mile and the airport. She locked the grounds of the Las Vegas Strip. The authorities ask that eyewitnesses should not pass information on Twitter in order not to hinder the deployment.
Several flights from McCarran Airport have been redirected.
The background of the shooting is still unclear. The police reported that they were investigating the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Casino on the city's amusement park. It is still unclear whether it is one or more shooters. However, the police are not currently assuming that there will be more shooters on the casino mile than the overwhelmed person, the authorities announced on Twitter.
According to an unconfirmed report from the New York Times, the police are investigating allegations that shots have also been fired at other locations in the city.
According to reports, hundreds of shots were fired. Many people would have been lying on the ground, a young man told CNN. He heard shots at around 10 pm local time, another concert-goer told NBC. "Then the band ran off the stage," he said. "Everybody ran, people were trampled down."
She had heard shots from automatic weapons for 20 minutes, a Swiss tourist told the portal "20 minutes".
"The police told us to stay in the room, take off the shoes and close the doors," she said. Helicopters circled the hotel and policemen were standing in the corridors. The guests should have reserved themselves for a possible evacuation, until then "we must sit still in the hotel room in the dark on the floor."(spiegel)
At a country concert in the US gambling metropolis Las Vegas, at least one gunman shot around and injured many people, reports the police. A supposed shooter was thus overwhelmed. Whether the suspect was killed or injured is still unclear.
At least two people were killed according to a hospital spokeswoman. More than 24 people were taken to hospitals with firearms. 14 of them are therefore in critical condition. The concert was home to about 30,000 visitors.
The police called on the people through Twitter to avoid the area near the casino mile and the airport. She locked the grounds of the Las Vegas Strip. The authorities ask that eyewitnesses should not pass information on Twitter in order not to hinder the deployment.
Several flights from McCarran Airport have been redirected.
The background of the shooting is still unclear. The police reported that they were investigating the shooting at the Mandalay Bay Casino on the city's amusement park. It is still unclear whether it is one or more shooters. However, the police are not currently assuming that there will be more shooters on the casino mile than the overwhelmed person, the authorities announced on Twitter.
According to an unconfirmed report from the New York Times, the police are investigating allegations that shots have also been fired at other locations in the city.
According to reports, hundreds of shots were fired. Many people would have been lying on the ground, a young man told CNN. He heard shots at around 10 pm local time, another concert-goer told NBC. "Then the band ran off the stage," he said. "Everybody ran, people were trampled down."
She had heard shots from automatic weapons for 20 minutes, a Swiss tourist told the portal "20 minutes".
"The police told us to stay in the room, take off the shoes and close the doors," she said. Helicopters circled the hotel and policemen were standing in the corridors. The guests should have reserved themselves for a possible evacuation, until then "we must sit still in the hotel room in the dark on the floor."(spiegel)
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