50 killed and 53 hospitalised as gunman open fire on Gay nightclub in orlando

 
At least 53 people have been hospitalized after a gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun opened fire inside a crowded gay nightclub early Sunday, killing at least 50 people before dying in a gunfight with SWAT officers, police said.


 It was the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.Authorities were investigating the attack on the Florida dance club as an act of terrorism. The gunman's father recalled that his son recently got angry,when he saw two men kissing in Miami and said that might be related to the assault.


The suspect exchanged gunfire with 14 police officers at the club, which had more than 300 people inside.

Authorities were looking into whether the attack was an act of domestic or international terrorism, and if the shooter acted alone, according to Danny Banks, an agent with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

"This is an incident, as I see it, that we certainly classify as domestic terror incident," Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings said.

The previous deadliest mass shooting in the U.S. was the 2007 attack at Virginia Tech, where a student killed 32 people before killing himself.
Mateen's father, Seddique Mir Mateen, told NBC News about his son seeing the men kissing a couple of months ago and that the attack had nothing to do with religion, he said.


"We are saying we are apologizing for the whole incident," Seddique said. "We are in shock like the whole country."
A federal law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation said Mateen was known to the FBI before the nightclub attack and had been looked at by agents within the last few years. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation publicly and spoke on condition of anonymity.


The Council on American-Islamic Relations Orlando Regional Coordinator Rasha Mubarak said in a statement:

    We condemn this monstrous attack and offer our heartfelt condolences to the families and loved ones of all those killed or injured. The Muslim community joins our fellow Americans in repudiating anyone or any group that would claim to justify or excuse such an appalling act of violence.

US President Barack Obama on Sunday described the incident as  “an act of terror and an act of hate.”

    “The Massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school, or in a house of worship, or a movie theater, or in a nightclub…. And we have to decide if that’s the kind of country we want to be…. And to actively do nothing is a decision as well.”

    This is an especially heartbreaking say for our friends fellow Americans who are lesbian gay bisexual or transgender,” Obama said.