Las Vegas shooting: Horror in the US

The gunman opened fire at an open-air country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip, near the Mandalay Bay Hotel.

Monique and Rachel Dekerf were at the Jason Aldean concert outside the Mandalay Bay Casino when the shooting start.

"We heard (what) sounded like a glass breaking, so you looked around to see what's going on and then heard a pop, pop, pop," Monique Dekerf told CNN.

"You'd think for a moment okay we're fine, there's no more gunfire, then it starts again."

Her sister said it sounded like "the shots were coming from the right side ... it sounded like they were right beside us too ... it was right there."

Another witness, Joel Pitzel, said he heard "a succession of pops."

"It sounded like fireworks, but ... they kept rattling off," he said, adding it sounded like the shooter was "loading clips."

"I bet I heard a hundred to 130 shots ... in successions of ten, like a clip," he said.

Large numbers of ambulances and police cars are continuing to head to the scene of the shooting, reports CNN correspondent Jean Caseraz from Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Sun reporter Mick Akers said there was "pandemonium" on the scene.

"One guy was on the 32nd floor," Akers told CNN. "He said he was woken up (and) heard shots and smelled gunfire. He waited it out a few minutes, called the front desk and (then) the metro police came up and escorted everyone out."

Police are swarming the Las Vegas strip where there has been heavy gunfire and reports of at least two people killed and dozens wounded.

The incident is still unfolding, but it appears that it began at the Route 91 country music festival, near the Mandalay Bay Casino.

Videos on social media showed concertgoers fleeing in terror after the sound of what appeared to be automatic gunfire.

We'll bring you the latest information as we get it.

Source : BBC . CNN