In a yet another horrific incident in terms of shooting, a lone gun man is said to have shot dead more than 50 people also leaving as many as 200 injured. The incident is said to have taken place at at a country music festival opposite the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip.

The Police has confirmed that it was no terrorist attack and was the work of a lone gun man 64-year-old Stephen Paddock who was later killed by the SWAT team. The shots appeared to be coming from one of the sky scrapers around as mentioned by eye witness. A video posted on social media showed the open-air concert fully underway when bursts of automatic gunfire rang out in rapid succession. The crowd seem to run frantically in fear and many started taking cover.

Officials have claimed this shooting to be one of the worst in US history's shooting tragedies.