Forty-ne people were killed at Pulse, a gay nightclub Orlando, what marks the adlit mass shootg U.S. history.
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- ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
- LIVE BLOG: MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS WORST HISTORY
- ORLANDO’S PULSE: GAY NIGHTCLUB AND MUNY PARTNER
ORLANDO GUNMAN ATTACKS GAY NIGHTCLUB, LEAVG 50 DEAD
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— A man who lled 911 to proclaim allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group, and who had been vtigated the past for possible terrorist ti, stormed a gay nightclub here Sunday morng, wieldg an asslt rifle and a pistol, and rried out the worst mass shootg Uned Stat history, leavg 50 people ad and 53 attacker, intified by law enforcement officials as Omar Mateen, a 29-year-old who was born New York, turned what had been a celebratory night of dancg to salsa and merengue mic at the crowd Pulse nightclub to a panicked scene of unimagable slghter, the floors slicked wh blood, the ad and the jured piled atop one another. 11, 2001, and the adlit attack on a gay target the natn’s history, though officials said was not clear whether some victims had been accintally shot by law enforcement toll of 50 ad is larger than the number of murrs Orlando over the prev three years.
LIVE BLOG: MASS SHOOTG AT ORLANDO GAY NIGHTCLUB IS WORST HISTORY
A gunman killed 50 people and wound at least 53 at a gay nightclub Orlando, Florida, early Sunday, markg the adlit mass shootg U.S. history. * 2016 gay nightclub orlando *
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ORLANDO’S PULSE: GAY NIGHTCLUB AND MUNY PARTNER
The Orlando nightclub that beme the scene of the worst mass shootg U.S. history on Sunday morng saw self as a gay sanctuary. * 2016 gay nightclub orlando *
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A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Praisg Isis, Gunman Attacks Gay Nightclub, Leavg 50 Dead Worst Shootg on U. An Amerin-born man who’d pledged allegiance to ISIS gunned down 49 people early Sunday at a gay nightclub Orlando, the adlit mass shootg the Uned Stat and the natn’s worst terror attack sce 9/11, thori said.
While the vlence uld have h any Amerin muny, “This is an pecially heartbreakg day for our iends who are lbian, gay, bisexual or transgenr, ” he said. A msage posted Arabic on a dark web se associated wh the ISIS news agency Amaq said “the armed attack that targeted a gay night club the cy of Orlando the Amerin state of Florida and that bore more than a 100 killed and wound was rried out by an Islamic state fighter. She said the language is nsistent wh prev ISIS announcements and that the Arabic word for gay was ed rather than an ephet normally ed by ISIS.
Pulse scrib self as “the hottt gay bar” the heart of Orlando.