An injured person is tended to at the site of the shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, yesterday.
Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday a cable to US President Donald Trump, to express his condolences on the victims of the criminal incident that killed and injured dozens of people in Las Vegas city.
Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani, and Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent similar cables.
58 dead in gun rampage
A suspected “lone wolf” gunman sparked the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history when he opened fire on a crowd of concertgoers from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel, killing at least 58 people and injuring hundreds more, police said yesterday.
More than 22,000 people were attending the performance by country music star Jason Aldean Sunday night at the Route 91 Harvest Festival when the gunman hammered out a window at the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino and began firing with a cache of weapons.
Authorities who stormed the suspect’s room found that he had killed himself. Officials say the suspected gunman, Stephen Craig Paddock, a 64-year-old retiree from Mesquite, Nevada, wasn’t on the radar of law enforcement. They think he acted alone but want to talk with his roommate.
