A Las Vegas music festival fan has told how he helped rescue concertgoers wounded during a shooting, but that one man died in his arms.
Police say at least 20 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a gunman opened fire on an outdoor music festival on the Las Vegas Strip late Sunday (tonight NZT).
Dozens of patrol vehicles descended on the Strip after authorities received reports of an active shooter near the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
Las Vegas police later said one suspect was "down" and they did not believe there were any other shooters.
Concert-goers reported seeing muzzle flashes from the upper floors of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino across Las Vegas Boulevard from the country music festival and the sound of what they described as automatic gun fire.
Speaking near the scene, one man told ABC News "lots of people got hit" including his buddy, and one man carried bleeding from out of the venue died in his arms.
"Jason Aldean was playing and it kind of sounded like some fireworks going off. And there was like the first kind of volley and all of a sudden a second volley,” the man said.
"My buddy was like ‘I just got hit’ and got hit three times. And then people started diving for the ground and it just continued and it was pretty much chaotic,” he said.
"Lots of people got hit.....it took a while to get them out. We had to get them over the fence and hiding under the stage for a while to be safe.
"And finally we had to move him because he had three shots, and got him out here. We got four people in the back of a truck but then we got turned around ‘cause there was an active shooter. So we couldn't go down the street,” the man said.
"We finally got the ambulance right across the street here and got two of the guys in. And basically the one guy ended up dying in my arms because he was bleeding. And then my buddy got in there. We got three more people in the ambulance.
“I just got a message my buddy is going to be okay.”
Thousands fled as bursts of gunfire could be heard for more than five minutes, a witness said.
Officers carrying assault rifles ran into the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino and authorities shut down part of the Las Vegas Strip and Interstate 15.
Flights were temporarily halted at McCarran International Airport because of the shooting, the airport said on its Twitter account.
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