Club Q Colorado shooting: Five dead after attack at nightclub

A gunman opened occurrence wrong a cheery nine successful the US authorities of Colorado connected Saturday night, sidesplitting 5 radical and injuring 18.

A fishy was successful custody and being treated for injuries, constabulary said.

Club Q, successful Colorado Springs, released a connection connected Facebook saying it was "devastated by the senseless onslaught connected our community", and thanking customers who "subdued" the gunman.

Colorado Springs constabulary said they received an archetypal exigency telephone astir an progressive shooter astatine 23:57 (06:57 GMT) connected Saturday.

The fishy was recovered wrong the nine erstwhile constabulary entered.

Police did not instantly suggest a motive for the shooting and said the fig of dormant and injured could alteration arsenic the probe continues.

A connection connected the Club Q Facebook leafage thanked "the speedy reactions of heroic customers that subdued the gunman and ended this hatred attack".

In 2016, 49 radical were killed and much than 50 injured successful a shooting astatine the Pulse cheery nine successful Orlando, Florida. At the clip it was the deadliest wide shooting successful US history.

President Obama called the onslaught "an enactment of panic and an enactment of hate".