Las Vegas: The Islamic State Group has taken the responsibility for a massive shooting in Las Vegas, and says that the culprit was “a soldier” who had previously turned to Islam, did not provide any evidence to support the claim.
The group released two statements of its news agency on Monday, a few hours after shooting at the country music festival, at least 58 people were killed and at least 515 were injured.
It did not name the suspect shooter, identified as a 64-year-old Stephen Paddock as the Las Vegas Police, but said he was battling extremist groups in Iraq and Syria “in response to the call to target the coalition countries. The Operation done.
The ISIS Often claims of attacks by individuals inspired by their message, but there are no known links to the group. A gunman sets fire to fans at an American Country Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip, the police said.
The police said that a local resident, who was identified as 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, was killed after being “engaged”, who reported the Hotel-Casino report next to the concert venue from the 32nd floor of Mandalay Bay Answered. Las Vegas Sheriff Josef Lombardo told the media, “We believe that a person has killed himself before our entry”.
He said that the authorities were found to be “more than 10 rifles” by entering the 32nd floor hotel room, one of the gunmen killed at least 50 people and hundreds injured.
The revelers screamed and ran into the picnic when the footage captured on the Smartphone was shown only after 10:00 local time.
Las Vegas Metro Police, Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told an initial press conference, “We have got more than 200 injured and more than 50 plus have died.” Lombardo said that two people killed were considered off-duty police officers. “This is a continuous investigation, but we are comfortable in the fact that the primary attacker in this incident has ended or has ended, and there is no threat now.
The Sheriff said that he believed that this was a “lone wolf” attack, but said he was looking for a roommate of the dead suspects as a person of interest. Thousands of fans participated in the concert next to Mandalay Bay, which was part of the three day country music festival known as Route 91.
The Witnesses said that the gunman set fire to the initial burst and then after reload, he again appeared again. “We heard sounds like a glass break, then you looked around to see what was happening and then heard a pop, pop, pop, “You will think for a moment, okay, we are fine, now there is no firing, then it will start again.”
The best-selling country singer Jason Aldean was on stage at the time of the shooting, which came to the end of the concert. The Witness said, “We were watching the concert a great time, and then we heard the sound like crackers, “I think it was going to an automatic weapon, but it really seemed like fireworks
“Soon enough was a ruckus on the Mandalay Bay of the Forum.
They were speeding for medics come and the security people came and ran from Jason Aldean’s platform. “All the people around goes down. I do not know if they were robbing or if they were, but this was anarchy.”
