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It has been one year since the Las Vegas shooting rocked the US. Here's exactly how the nation's worst modern gun massacre unfolded

Kieran Corcoran,Sinéad Baker,Sinéad Baker   

It has been one year since the Las Vegas shooting rocked the US. Here's exactly how the nation's worst modern gun massacre unfolded
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Las Vegas shooting medical response

Reuters

Emergency services set up a makeshift medical centre in the middle of the Las Vegas Strip.

The deadliest shooting in recent US history unfolded - as most do - in a storm of chaos and confusion.

58 people were killed and more than 850 injured when a gunman opened fire at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on October 1.

By the time the general public knew a shooting was underway, the gunman, 64-year-old Stephen Paddock, was already dead.

Despite an extensive investigation lasting the best part of a year, authorities ended their efforts without being able to determine Paddock's motivation.

Here, moment by moment, is how the attack unfolded:

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