BOLT FROM THE BLUE
BOLT FROM THE BLUE
“What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” this
was the promotion slogan for Las Vegas which has built its fortunes on gambling
and gamboling. It saw a massive mass murder even before the clock had struck
12. Stephen Paddock 64 years old retired accountant who lived in Mesquite an hour’s
drive from Las Vegas was the root cause behind this huge massacre.
Like every other night Vegas was at all its
glory, it was just a few minutes after which the clock would have struck 12.
Shows had just ended, when all of a sudden news of a gunman firing from a hotel
at Las Vegas spread like a rapid forest fire. The shooting went on for at least
10mintues, by that time at least 58 people were killed and almost 515 people
were injured.
Among the number of tourists a few tourists
hailing from Kolkata were there, few of them have shared their devastating and
mentally tormenting experience. The strips for which Las Vegas is famous, which
is the hub of activities and has been one of the pivotal tourists attraction
has become silent and vacant all of a sudden, for them it feels that Vegas has
gone off to sleep.
Unable to gauge the devastating experience
at first a few of them thought, maybe a celebrity sensation has just drooped by
which is why everyone is running haywire. It took them really some time to understand
this man made calamity that has drooped on them. Unlike Kolkata, the place from
where some of them hailed, and are used to see eager countenances sharing
information, they didn’t meet anything of that sort. There only source of
information was the constant bulletins.
After a through enquiry about Stephen
Paddock the killer, the authorities have come out with this information that no
criminal offence has been reported against this retired officer, although his
roots when traced showed that his father was a bank robber and was one of the
most wanted on the FBI’s list. When asked to Mr. Eric Paddock brother of Stephen Paddock he
retorted by saying that it gave him no less shock than the others, that
something so brutal so devilish has been hatched and conceived by his brother.
When asked about the kind of weapons used
by Mr. Paddock the Las Vegas police reported that out of the 10 rifles used by
him at least one of them was automatic, how and where did he get hold of those
killer ammunitions still remains a question .
Although words are of no help to the
survivors of this deadly attack and those family members who are victims to
such devastating occurrence, innocent family members die a most painful death,
but it is believed that prayers could often work wonders, with this hope in heart,
we the members of Iyouthmag, sincerely and earnestly pray for the fast recovery
of the wounded, the survivors and the family members of the deceased. May God keeps them strong, and may all of
them recover fast, and last but not the least may peace be once more restored
to Las Vegas.
-Diya Ghoshal
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