{"id":158768,"date":"2017-10-02T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=158768"},"modified":"2017-10-09T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-10-09T15:08:16","slug":"las-vegas-shooting-mandalay-bay-massacre-leaves-more-than-50-dead-in-worst-attack-in-us-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=158768","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas shooting: Mandalay Bay massacre leaves more than 50 dead in worst attack in US history"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">\n<h1>Danny Boyle &#8212; Telegraph.co.uk Oct 1, 2017<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pRnbzkMsgmM?rel=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">More than 50 people have been killed and at least 200\u00a0injured\u00a0at an open-air country music festival in Las Vegas\u00a0in the worst\u00a0mass shooting in US history.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Terror spread through\u00a0the city&#8217;s famous strip as 64-year-old\u00a0gunman Stephen Paddock launched an attack from\u00a0the\u00a032nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino,\u00a0unloading\u00a0hundreds of rounds of ammunition from an automatic weapon towards concert-goers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Police confirmed the attacker &#8211; described as a &#8220;lone wolf&#8221; &#8211; was a local resident who has\u00a0been shot and killed by officers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The attacker&#8217;s motive is unknown, but\u00a0the Las Vegas sheriff said his\u00a0female travelling companion &#8211; Marilou Danley &#8211; was sought as a &#8220;person of interest&#8221;. Police later said they believed she had been located.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">An estimated 40,000 people dived for cover as hundreds of rounds of shots rained down on the crowd during the\u00a0Route 91 Harvest Festival\u00a0at about 10.20pm on\u00a0Sunday local time (6.20am Monday BST)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Witnesses earlier claimed the attack involved &#8220;two or three&#8221; gunmen and there were reports of other incidents at different locations. But police said\u00a0they believe the dead suspect acted alone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8220;We have in excess of 100-plus injured and excess of 20-plus that have died at this point,&#8221; Las\u00a0Vegas\u00a0Metro Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told a press conference, adding that two off-duty police officers are believed to be among the dead<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The shooting came towards the end of the three-day Route 91 Harvest Festival while\u00a0Jason Aldean, the American country music singer, was on stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Mr Aldean posted on Instagram that he and his crew are safe, as he said: &#8220;My thoughts and prayers go out to everyone involved.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/2017\/10\/02\/las-vegas-strip-shooting-multiple-casualties-reported-near-mandalay\/\">Continues &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Confirming that one suspect is down. This is an active investigation. Again, please do not head down to the Strip at this time.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LVMPD (@LVMPD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LVMPD\/status\/914746328500117504?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">At this time we do not believe there are any more shooters.  More information to come  shortly from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Sheriff_LVMPD?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Sheriff_LVMPD<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; LVMPD (@LVMPD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LVMPD\/status\/914754789598048257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 2, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police confirm that the gunman, a local resident, has been shot dead<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[88,58,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-false-flag-attacks","category-Current_Affairs","category-las-vegas-mandalay-bay-hotel-shooting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=158768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158769,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158768\/revisions\/158769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}