Las Vegas Shooting Near Mandalay Bay Casino Kills More Than 20
The attack was carried out at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival, where multiple shots began firing into the crowd from an elevated position.
The gunfire caused the audience to flee to the Strip, where there was more gunfire into the crowds as they began to flee.
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Running from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas after gunfire was heard on Sunday. Credit David Becker/Getty Images[/caption]style="display:block"
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There have already been multiple eyewitness accounts of the event, including from Dan Bilzerian, and an audience member who told ABC News he held a man in his arms as he died.
During the chaos, more gunshots fired, and initial reports were of 26 casualties – including 2 deaths.
The higher number is the most recent report from police and will likely change in the coming hours.
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Tending to the wounded outside the festival ground. Credit David Becker/Getty Images[/caption]Speaking of the event, Mike Cronk, 48, told ABC News:
I was at the concert there and Jason Aldea was playing and it sounded like some fireworks going off and then I think that was the first volley and then all of a sudden there was this second volley.
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My buddy was like ‘I just got hit’ and he got hit three times. People started diving for the ground and it just continued and it was pretty much chaotic and lots of people got hit.
It took a while to get him out, we had to get him over the fence and hiding under the stage to be safe and finally we had to move him because he had three chest wounds.
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He continued:
We got him out here and we got four people into the back of a truck but then we got turned around because there was an active shooter so we couldn’t go down that street.
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We finally got an ambulance right across the street here and got two of the guys in and one guy ended up dying in my arms because he was bleeding.
My buddy got in there and we got three more people in that ambulance and I just got message my buddy is going to be okay.
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A police officer taking cover near the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Credit John Locher/Associated Press[/caption]https://twitter.com/EirikurH/status/914722526349033472
The Las Vegas Police Department have requested that people avoid the area for their own safety as the FBI assist the local law enforcement efforts in Las Vegas.
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A woman covered with blood at the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Credit David Becker/Getty Images[/caption][caption id="attachment_1575" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]
Emergency vehicles at the corner of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard after the shooting. Credit Steve Marcus/Reuters[/caption]style="display:block"
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A photo posted by a Las Vegas Review-Journal photographer showed emergency responders carrying off one injured person in a wheelbarrow.
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Las Vegas police are currently looking for two vehicles associated with the attack
More to follow.
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