- As Hostel fire kills five workers in Ukraine
More than 20 people are dead and more than 100 others injured after a shooting near the Las Vegas Mandalay Bay hotel, police said Monday during a press conference.
The main suspect started firing an automatic rifle from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel at 10:08 pm (0708 GMT) at a crowd of people watching an outdoor music festival during a performance by country singer Jason Aldean, Sherriff Joe Lombardo said.
The shots continued for more than a minute, with hundreds of people taking cover and trying to escape the scene.
The perpetrator, identified as a local resident, was shot and killed by police in the hotel room shortly afterwards, Lombardo added.
Though US authorities believe the perpetrator was a “sole actor,” Lombardo said that police were also searching for Mari Lou Danley, identified as an Asian woman who was with the suspect at the time of the attack.
A witness at the event told dpa she heard multiple gunshots before fleeing, and said she “crawled over dead people” as she tried to get away.
Lombardo said that several off-duty police officers had been attending the country music festival and that at least two had been killed in the incident.
He added that, despite the “confusion and hysteria” in the wake of the shooting, reports about multiple shootings cannot be confirmed.
In the meantime, five vegetable market and farm workers were killed Monday when a fire swept through their hostel in the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia, the regional emergency service said.
Four other residents, including an eight-year-old child, were rescued and taken to hospital.
“This building was once a bakery complex. It was decommissioned in 2011 and not used again until 2016,” when the owner turned it into an unregistered hostel for local workers, said Yuliya Barysheva, a spokeswoman for the regional emergencies service.
Barysheva told AFP that the building was located near a vegetable market. All the hostel residents worked either in the market or on nearby farms.
Barysheva said it remained unclear how many people were inside the building at the time of the fire or what sparked the deadly accident, adding that an investigation was underway.
Zaporizhia is located some 150 kilometres (95 miles) west of an area that has seen Russian-backed forces wage war against government forces for over three years. The conflict has claimed more than 10,000 lives.
Additional report from Punch
