No clarity yet on whether any South Africans injured or killed in Las Vegas shooting

The Department of International Relations and Cooperation said on Monday it could not immediately confirm whether any South Africans were wounded or killed in a shooting at a music concert in Las Vegas at the weekend.

A body is covered with a sheet in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 1, 2017.
A body is covered with a sheet in the intersection of Tropicana Avenue and Las Vegas Boulevard South after a mass shooting at a music festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S. October 1, 2017. (REUTERS/Las Vegas Sun/Steve Marcus)

At least 20 people were gunned down and more than a 100 others wounded when a gunman opened fire at the concert in the gambling capital on Sunday.

Reuters reported the alleged gunman had since been killed.

Las Vegas Metro Police Sheriff Joseph Lombardo was quoted as saying that his death came after police "engaged the suspect".

The motive for the attack was not immediately clear.