UPDATE - More than 20 dead in US city of Las Vegas mass shooting

UPDATES WITH SHERIFF’S OFFICIAL STATEMENT, DETAILS

By Canberk Yuksel

NEW YORK (AA) - More than 20 people were killed and at least 100 others wounded during a mass shooting at a country music concert in Las Vegas city late Sunday night, according to law enforcement early Monday.

A gunman opened fire on the more than 10,000 concert-goers at an outdoor venue from across the Mandalay Bay hotel at around 10.08 p.m. local time (0500 GMT Monday), Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lambardo from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) told reporters.

Lambardo referred to the attacker, who was killed by officers on the 32nd floor of the hotel, as a Las Vegas local resident and made no references to terrorism, instead calling the shooting a "lone wolf" attack.

The shooter fired as many as 600 rounds in six or seven bursts with an automatic weapon for nearly four-and-a-half minutes, media reports quoted police sources as saying.

Video footage of the shooting showed thousands fleeing the venue in panic, causing stampedes, according to eyewitnesses.

Police believe there are no additional suspects but are looking for a female "companion" of the shooter, identified as 63-year-old Marilou Danley.

An FBI-assisted investigation is underway, Lambardo said.

An exact number of casualties was not immediately available, officials said. A spokesman for a nearby hospital said at least 12 people were in critical condition.

At least two off-duty police officers are believed to be among those slain, according to media reports.

The shooting is the worst on U.S. soil since the Orlando mass shooting in June, 2016, which killed 49 people.

*Satuk Bugra Kutlugun contributed to this story from Ankara