'Multiple casualties' confirmed at Orlando gay club after gunman who burst in 'wearing a suicide vest' and took hostages before shooting up to 20 peop

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[h=1]'Multiple casualties' confirmed at Orlando gay club after gunman who burst in 'wearing a suicide vest' and took hostages before shooting up to 20 people is killed[/h]

• Gunman opened fire with assault rifle inside Pulse Nightclub in Orlando
• Revellers ran for their lives as video footage showed injured people outside
• There were fears the attacker was carrying a suicide vest and had hostages
• Officers confirmed gunman was killed four hours after shooting began
• Reports of 40 shots fired inside the club where people hid from attacker

By MATT HUNTER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 09:08, 12 June 2016 | UPDATED: 12:03, 12 June 2016

 

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A gunman armed with a bomb who opened fire at a gay nightclub and took hostages has been killed, police have confirmed.
The Pulse Club in Orlando told around the 100 revellers inside that 'everyone [should] get out of pulse and keep on running'.
Eyewitnesses described the gunman having a bomb strapped to himself when he started shooting at around 2.00 local time (7am GMT) today.
At around 6.00 local time (11am GMT) police said on Twitter: 'Pulse Shooting: The shooter inside the club is dead.' Officers described it as a 'mass shooting'.

 

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There was thought to be at least one hostage locked in a bathroom with gunshot wounds

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Eyewitnesses described the gunman having a bomb strapped to himself when he started shooting at around 2.00 local time (7am GMT) today

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The Pulse Club in Orlando told around the 100 revellers inside that 'everyone [should] get out of pulse and keep on running' as the man took hostages

Orlando Police confirmed the shooter was dead and that they were dealing with a 'mass casualty situation'

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Emergency services at the scene outside the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida

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Dozens of officers and medics have been at the scene including Orlando Fire Department's bomb squad and hazardous material team

 

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Police earlier carried out an controlled explosion at 5.15 local time (10.15am GMT today). but it is not yet clear whether that was linked with the gunman's death.
It was thought that at least one hostage had been locked in a bathroom with gunshot wounds.
Local TV reporter Stewart Moore said that more than 20 people had been shot with an assault rifle.
Jon Alamo said he was at the back of one of the club's rooms when a man holding a weapon came into the front of the room.
'I heard 20, 40, 50 shots,' Alamo said. 'The music stopped.'
Club-goer Rob Rick said it happened around, 2 a.m., just before closing time. 'Everybody was drinking their last sip,' he said.
He estimated more than 100 people were still inside when he heard shots, got on the ground and crawled toward a DJ booth.
A bouncer knocked down a partition between the club area and an area in the back where only workers are allowed. People inside were able to then escape through the back of the club.
Christopher Hansen said he was in the VIP lounge when he started hearing gunshots.
'I was thinking, are you kidding me? So I just dropped down. I just said please, please, please, I want to make it out,' he said. 'And when I did, I saw people shot. I saw blood. You hope and pray you don't get shot.'

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Orlando Police officers direct family members away from a multiple shooting at the nightclub

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The gunman opened fire at a nightclub in central Florida, and multiple people were wounded, police said

TV reporter Stewart Moore reported from the scene outside the nightclub in Orlando

This Twitter user was in the nightclub and describes what he saw inside where people were hiding

Juan Rivera reported that the gunman had a bomb strapped to himself inside the Orlando nightclub

 

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He continued to hear shooting even after he emerged, where police were telling people to back away from the club. He saw injured people being tended to across the street.
Mina Justice was outside the club trying to contact her 30-year-old son Eddie, who texted her when the shooting happened and asked her to call police.
He told her he ran into a bathroom with other club patrons to hide. He then texted her: 'He's coming.'
'The next text said: `He has us, and he's in here with us,'' she said. 'That was the last conversation.'
Ricardo Almodovar was in the nightclub. He said: 'Shooter opened fire at around 2.00am. People on the dance floor and bar got down on the floor and some of us who were near the bar and back exit managed to go out through the outdoor area and just ran.
'I am safely home and hoping everyone gets home safely as well.' Juan Rivera said on Twitter: 'Never seen so many dead bodies on the floor, God is good that my friends and I didn't get shot'.

 

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Anthony Torres heard people screaming that others in the nightclub were dead.
Rosie Feba was in the club with her girlfriend and described the moment the shooting happened to the Orlando Sentinal.
She said: 'Everyone was getting on the floor.I told her [girlfriend] I didn't think it was real, I thought it was just part of the music, until I saw fire coming out of his gun.'
A police dispatcher described the incident as an 'active shooting'. Officers are advising locals to stay away from the area.
He said: 'There are injuries. I am not sure if there are any deceased at this time.'
'Officers are going in to search the building and to get people out,' the dispatcher said.

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Emergency services outside Pulse Club, Orlando where a gunman was reported to have taken hostages

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A gunman opened firing at Pulse Club in Orlando causing mayhem inside. Revellers ran for their lives as video footage showed injured people on the streets outside

 

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Pulse nightclub in Orlando, central Florida where the shooting took place

The police department posted on their official Twitter account: 'Multiple injuries. Stay away from the area.'
Pulse nightclub said on its Facebook account: 'Everyone get out of Pulse and keep running.'
Dozens of officers and medics are at the scene including Orlando Fire Department's bomb squad and hazardous material team.
Police have not given any further updates on the hostage situation or the gunman.
The shootings have taken place less than four miles away from where The Voice singer and YouTube star Christina Grimmie, 22, was shot dead by a guman at The Plaza Live in Orlando on Friday 22.45 local time (02.45am GMT Saturday).
The man, identified as 27-year-old Kevin James Loibl, of St Petersburg, Florida was armed with two handguns, ammunition and a hunting knife.
He later killed himself and his motive was unknown.

 

[Willie99]

just so wrong, so many sick people in this world, more lives ruined by the action of an idiot

 

[superbeets]

News conference Terror incident,did have hostage situation. Law enforcement saved about 30 lives. Not a local shooter, came from outside Orlando, his home is been searched now. He had, hand gun, assault rifle and a suspicious device.

 

[GasMan]

Yup...for just a moment this am I was mad at Islam...now I forgave them and came to my senses. I may adopt a refugee or two.

 

[ScottL]

"God is good that my friends and I didn't get shot."

What a callously stupid thing to say.

 

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12:56
What we know so far

A shooting at a LGBT nightclub in Orlando has killed about 20 people and sent 42 to the hospital, after Florida police and Swat teams ended a hostage situation with a gunman, killing him, in the early hours of of Sunday morning.
At a morning press conference the FBI described the shooting as an act of terrorism, saying: “Whether that’s a domestic terrorist activity or international, it’s terrorism.”
The press conference also gave details how the shooting began, the raid, and what few details police know so far about the gunman.

• At approximately 2am on Sunday, an officer working at Pulse Clubresponded to shots fires and engaged in a gun battle with the suspect. The suspect at some point entered the night club and a hostage situation began.
• Dozens of officers and federal agents responded to the shooting from around the area, and police began receiving phone calls from inside the club: calls from bathrooms and at least 15 people “in the area”, police chief John Mina said.
• At approximately 5am police decided to rescue the hostages, setting off two “distractionary devices” and blowing apart a wall so a Swat team could storm the club. The suspect was killed in the ensuing gunfight. There were “at least 30 people that were saved during that rescue”, Mina said.
• Police found an “assault-type rifle”, a handgun and “some kind of device” on the suspect’s body, and are working to clear the night club of any suspicious items. Bodies remain inside. Mina said there were “no witness accounts of a second shooter”.
• About 20 people were killed, Mina said, and 42 taken to three area hospitals. One police officer sustained a minor injury.
• It appears he was organized and well prepared,” Mina said of the suspect. “He’s not from this area.” Mina used the same phrasing to say that the gunman who killed singer Christina Grimmie on Friday night in Orlando was not from central Florida. He said the shootings do not appear related.
• Orlando sheriff Jerry Demings called the shooting “a domestic terror incident”, and the FBI said they were investigating whether the suspect acted as “a lone wolf” or had any ties to terror groups abroad. Asked about a link to jihadi terrorism, an FBI agent said: “At this time we’re looking into all angles. We do have suggestions that that individual may have had leanings toward that, that particular ideology. But right now we can’t say anything definitively.”

 

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52s ago14:20
The press secretary to the president has issued a statement:
“The President was briefed this morning by Lisa Monaco, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism, on the tragic shooting in Orlando, Florida. Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and loved ones of the victims. The President asked to receive regular updates as the FBI, and other federal officials, work with the Orlando Police to gather more information, and directed that the federal government provide any assistance necessary to pursue the investigation and support the community.”

 

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[FONT=&quot]35m ago13:48[/FONT]
[FONT=&quot]If police chief John Mina’s estimate proves accurate that about 20 people were killed in the Orlando shooting, it already ranks as one of the deadliest in American history.

• 12 June 2016: police estimate that 20 people were killed and 42 injured after a gunman opens fire at an LGBT Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
• 2 December 2015: An American and his Pakistani wife kill 14 people in San Bernardino, California, wounding 21 others at a workplace event. The shooters were killed after a car chase and shootout with police. The FBI declared the shooting an act of terrorism.
• 1 October 2015: A student at Umpqua Community College in Roseburg, Oregon, killed eight students and a teacher, after amassing 14 weapons. He was killed in a gunfight with sheriff’s deputies.
• 18 June 2015: A white gunman sat in a prayer session at a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and then killed nine church-goers. Police later found a hate-filled manifestolinked to the shooter, who they eventually captured.
• 16 September 2013: A Navy contractor opened fire at the Washington Navy Yard in Washington DC, killing 12 people and injuring three. The gunman was killed by authorities, who found he had a record of insubordination and disorderly conduct.
• 14 December 2012: A gunman shot dead 20 young children and six adults at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. The 20 year old also killed his mother, who lived nearby, and then killed himself before police could stop the massacre.

• 20 July 2012: A 24-year-old gunman sprayed bullets in an Aurora, Colorado, movie theater during a late-night showing of a Batman film. He killed 12 people and injured 58 others, and was arrested in the parking lot outside the theater. He was sentenced to life in prison.
• 5 November 2009: An army psychiatrist killed 13 people and 32 others at Ft Hood, Texas, where he was based. The shooter wassentenced to death for the shooting.
• 3 April 2009: A shooter killed 13 people and injures four others at an immigration center in Binghamton, New York, before apparently shooting himself.
• 16 April 2007: A Virginia Tech student opened fire on campus, killing 32 people in a dorm and university building in two separate attacks, the deadliest mass shooting in US history. The gunman killed himself after the second attack.
• 20 April 1999: Two Colorado high school students at Columbine High shot dead 12 students and a teacher and causing injury to two dozen others before taking their own lives.
• 16 October 1991: A gunman opened fire with a semiautomatic pistol at a restaurant in Killeen, Texas, killing 22 people and wounding 20 others. Police later find the shooter in a restroom, killed by a gunshot wound.
• 20 August 1986: A postman killed 14 people and wounded six others at his post office in Edmond, Oklahoma, before killing himself.
• 18 July, 1984: An unemployed security guard attacked a McDonald’s in San Ysidro, California, killing 21 people and injuring 19 others. A police sniper killed the shooter from the roof of a nearby post office.

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[FONT=&quot]"Gunman identified as Omar Mateen, a U.S. citizen born to Afghan parents."



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With you all the way.

 

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[FONT=&quot]10m ago15:24[/FONT]
[h=2]50 dead, 53 wounded in attack, says mayor[/h][FONT=&quot]Mayor Dyer confirmed to a press conference that there were 50 killed and 53 hospitalised in the shooting, not 20 killed and 42 hospitalised as initially reported by police.
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[The Guesser]

Sick, Anti Gay Gun Nut, who evidently was offended months ago when he saw 2 gays kissing, and planned this out. Sick, sick sick. Will continue as long as sick people keep hating others that aren't like them, and have easy access to Assault Weapons that can kill so many people so swiftly. #PrayForOrlando.

 

[russ1945]

ISIS made a major declaration three days ago that it was targeting Florida.

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[GasMan]

Sick, Anti Gay Gun Nut, who evidently was offended months ago when he saw 2 gays kissing, and planned this out. Sick, sick sick. Will continue as long as sick people keep hating others that aren't like them, and have easy access to Assault Weapons that can kill so many people so swiftly. #PrayForOrlando.

You do realize that gays are killed in Islamic countries...even if they are just suspected of being gay? You know, the same people who killed your friends that made you aggravated for a day or two?

Oh well, maybe you and your sick brain can make an argument that this guy was actually a guy who hates gays and bought his gun at a gun show. But you are such a little **** faced pussy you will not denounce the fact that Islam condemns homosexuality.

Piece of shit.