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More than 400 injured in Las Vegas concert shooting; police say gunman killed himself

  LAS VEGAS, United States (AFP) — More than 400 victims were taken to hospital after a mass shooting in Las Vegas which left 50 people dead, police said on Monday. Approximately 406 people were transported to area hospitals, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department said in a statement which also put the toll from Sunday night’s shooting at 50. Police had previously said at least 50 people had been killed at the country music […]

Las Vegas police sheriff says concert shooting not a terrorist act, but a single act of shooting by one man

  By Anna Cui (EBC Las Vegas Bureau) Eagle News Service LAS VEGAS, United States (Eagle News) — The Las Vegas Metropolitan Department sheriff said that the shooting in a Las Vegas open concert on Sunday that killed 50 people and wounded more than 400 others, was not a terrorist act, but was a single act of shooting by one man in what is now the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history. Sheriff Joseph […]

US lawmakers probing Orlando shooter’s Facebook posts

ORLANDO, United States (AFP) — A top US lawmaker said Thursday authorities were probing the Facebook activity of the Orlando nightclub shooter, after an investigation found Omar Mateen made extremist posts during the massacre and searched for news of his attack. Ron Johnson, the Republican chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security, sent a letter to Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg Wednesday asking the company to share specifics of five accounts apparently used by Mateen. […]