Las Vegas gunman ‘opened fire on police’

Las Vegas investigators have given more details about the deadliest shooting in modern US history as they described how the gunman opened fire on airport fuel tanks and on police officers arriving at the massacre.

Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo held a news conference alongside the top FBI agent in Las Vegas amid questions about whether police could have done more to stop gunman Stephen Paddock on 1 October.

They provided no new information about Paddock’s motivation as he killed 58 people and wounded more than 500 at a country music festival. Forty-five people remain in hospital in a critical condition, Mr Lombardo said.

The sheriff said a postmortem had been performed on Paddock, and the coroner observed “no abnormalities” in his brain.

Mr Lombardo confirmed that Paddock intentionally opened fire on jet fuel tanks at the nearby Las Vegas airport and said he took shots at arriving police officers.