Tannerite and ammonium nitrate — ingredients used in making explosives — have been found in Stephen Paddock’s car and in his .

Police are still trying to figure out what drove the 64-year-old to kill 58 and injure 489 in the deadliest mass shooting in US history. Authorities say they’re searching for a mystery woman he was seen with in the lead up to the massacre. Her connection to the killer is not known at this stage, but officers are keen to find and question her to build a timeline of events, reports NBC.

It comes as police say Paddock ‘meticulously’ planned the attack over months. Sheriff Joe Lombardo described the killer as ‘disturbed’ and ‘dangerous’, saying: ‘What we know is Stephen Paddock is a man who spent decades acquiring weapons and ammo and living a secret life, much of which will never be fully understood.

‘He meticulously planned the worst domestic attack in US history.’ The death toll is officially 58 — Paddock’s death is the 59th. The number of injured people has fallen from 527 to 489, due to confusion at the hospital. More than 310 victims have been discharged.

The girlfriend of the Las Vegas gunman said she had no inkling of the massacre he was plotting when he sent her on a trip abroad to see her family.

Marilou Danley issued the statement after returning from her native Philippines and being questioned for much of the day by FBI agents still trying to figure out a motive. ‘He never said anything to me or took any action that I was aware of that I understood in any way to be a warning that something horrible like this was going to happen,’ Ms Danley said in a statement read by her lawyer outside FBI headquarters in Los Angeles.

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