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00:00Good day. Welcome to the gulf news update for Tuesday, October 3. Here are the top stories
00:08at this hour.
00:10Police sought clues today to explain why a retiree with no criminal record set up a sniper's
00:15nest in a high-rise Las Vegas hotel and poured gunfire into a concert below.
00:21The Sunday night shooting spree from a 32nd-floor window of the Mandalay Bay Hotel on the Las
00:27Vegas Strip killed at least 59 people before the gunman turned a weapon on himself. More
00:33than 500 were injured, some trampled in the deadliest mass shooting in modern US history.
00:39The 64-year-old gunman, identified as Stephen Paddock, left no immediate hint of his motive.
00:46Tom Petty, the heartland rocker whose classic melodies but dark storytelling created a string
00:51of hits over four decades, has died of a cardiac arrest.
00:56His family confirmed this morning that Petty passed away on Monday evening after a confusing
01:01day in which several media outlets reported and then retracted premature news of his death.
01:07The 66-year-old rocker had played three sold-out shows at the iconic Hollywood Bowl to wrap
01:13up a tour celebrating 40 years of his band, The Heartbreakers.
01:18Sri Lanka cricket captain Dinesh Chandimal hailed the contribution of Rangana Hirath,
01:22who led the side to a dramatic 21-run victory over Pakistan in the first test in Abu Dhabi.
01:29The 39-year-old left-arm veteran spinner came up with a match-winning 6-for-43 in the second
01:34innings for a match haul of 11 wickets.
01:38And finally, the weather. Today's high across the UAE will be 36 degrees Celsius, dropping
01:43to 29 degrees at night.
01:45That's all for now. Thanks for watching and as always you can get the latest news on gulfnews.com