7 reporter Ashley Mullany caught up in Las Vegas shooting

A Seven News journalist has been caught up in the horrifying Las Vegas shooting after being woken by ‘a thundering volley of gunshots’.

Ashlee Mullany was inside the Mandalay Bay hotel at the time of the attack and provided a live cross shortly after she and her cameraman Duncan McLeod were evacuated.

Taking to air just minutes after the shooting began, Ms Mullany described the situation as ‘terrifying’ and ‘utter chaos’.

She told how she woke up just after 10:30pm after hearing the gunfire, before trying to exit through the lobby and valet.

‘The difficult decision they (police) had to make was whether to take us out of the hotel where the gunman was or put us on the street where he was firing,’ Ms Mullany said. 

The reporter described how she knew the situation was ‘quite serious’ when she looked out her hotel window to see police cars speeding towards them from ‘every direction’.

Footage also emerged of Ms Mullany and Mr McLeod’s dramatic escape as they were ushered out of the building before being confronted by a man covered in blood.

The reporter was inside the Mandalay Bay hotel at the time of the attack and provided a live cross shortly after she and her cameraman Duncan McLeod were evacuated through the lobby

Footage of the pairs dramatic escape showed they were ushered out of the building before being confronted by a man covered in blood (pictured)

At least 59 people have been killed and more than 527 injured during the shooting, involving lone-wolf gunman Stephen Paddock.

The 64-year-old reportedly unleashed thousands of rounds onto the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival from a room in the Mandalay Bay hotel.

Headliner Jason Aldean was in the middle of his set when the gunfire rang out, as the sellout crowd of 22,000 people began to flee. 

Ms Mullany described how she knew the situation was ‘quite serious’ when she looked out her hotel window to see police cars speeding towards them from ‘every direction’