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More than 50 dead, 200 injured in Las Vegas shooting

Speed News Desk 2 October 2017, 16:37 IST

More than 50 dead, 200 injured in Las Vegas shooting

More than 50 people were killed and 200 injured in a in a mass shooting at an open-air country music festival in Las Vegas.

Police said that the suspect, whose name was not immediately released, was dead.

"Right now we believe it's a solo act, a lone wolf attacker," the Los Angeles Times quoted Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Sheriff Joe Lombardo, as saying.

Police is looking for a companion of the shooter as well as two vehicles, a Hyundai Tucson and Chrysler Pacifica.

Victims with gunshot wounds are being treated at One Las Vegas hospital.

Hundreds of people were seen fleeing the area after the shoot-out.

-With ANI inputs

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