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Today marks the fifth anniversary of the murderous shooting rampage during the outdoor Route 91 country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in 2017.
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SONYA ARTERO, TVB News (Oct. 2, 2017):
Good evening. We begin our coverage in America on the famous Las Vegas Strip.
That's where at least 50 people were killed and more than 100 injured in a mass shooting at a country music festival...
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The bloody massacre, the precursor to a deadly series of shootings across the U.S. in recent years, unravelled as the lone-wolf suspect, Steven Paddock, unleashed a tide of bullets from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel on the crowd below.
In the aftermath, 58 people were dead and more than 850 were injured amid a sea of 22,000 concertgoers at the Route 91 music festival.
To this day witnesses and survivors are still gravely scarred by the surreal carnage.
Commemorative events are slated for later today as distraught Americans continue to mend the gaping societal divisions.
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