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Las Vegas Shooting Survivors Form Human Chain

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hundreds of survivors of the Las Vegas mass shooting have formed a human chain around the shuttered site of a country music festival where a gunman opened fire last year.

Videos on social media Monday night showed the display of solidarity on the Las Vegas Strip started around 10 p.m. That's around the time the Oct. 1, 2017, shooting began.

As people were linking arms and holding hands Monday night near the concert site, officials and several hundred others across town listened to bagpipes and the names of the 58 victims being read aloud.

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A procession of pickup trucks with American flags flying from their truck beds drove down the Strip around the same time honking their horns.