“I never expected this”, Rahman said, holding a Koran in his hand as he spoke with reporters.
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“When he finished prayer he would just leave”, Rahman told AP.
“He was mentally unstable and mentally ill”, Yusufiy said.
While it is not known who the 600 Florida residents are, Kaplan said they are likely public figures, possibly the heads of hospitals, courts and schools.
When they split, “my family literally rescued me… they had to pull me out of his arms and find an emergency flight”.
An injured person is escorted out of the Pulse nightclub after a shooting rampage, Sunday morning June 12, 2016, in Orlando, Fla.
“This was an act of terror and an act of hate”, Obama said in a somber White House address to mark the worst mass shooting in US history.
“I’ve got to tell you over 25 years ago, I believed that in this country we should not be selling automatic weapons which are created to kill people”, the Vermont senator said.
“My personal opinion is that this has nothing to do with Islamic State”, he said.
“The suspect’s father told NBC News his son may have been motivated by homophobia and not by his Muslim faith”.
“We all hope that ways may be found, as soon as possible, to effectively identify and contrast the causes of such bad and absurd violence which so deeply upsets the desire for peace of the American people and of the whole of humanity”, the statement from the centre of the Roman Catholic Church said. We can confirm that Omar Mateen had been employed by G4S since September 10th, 2007.
Pulse Orlando posted on its own Facebook page around 2 a.m.: “Everyone get out of pulse and keep running”.
Richie Rosario had been trying to reach his Orlando-area friend Jose on his cellphone all day long.
The father of the Orlando nightclub gunman has a television show on Payam-e-Afghan, a California-based channel that supports ethnic solidarity with the Afghan Taliban, which are mostly Pashtun.
At least 50 people were killed, and 53 were hospitalised, most in critical condition, officials said. We weren’t aware of any action he is taking.
During the interview Mateen praised Ghani but by the following year had changed his views, apparently angered by Ghani’s outreach to Pakistan in his bid to start peace talks with the Taliban. There was a palpable sense of sadness among customers, as well as a search for comfort as they tried to make sense of the deadliest mass shooting in US history.
Pope Francis, head of the Catholic Church, expressed “the deepest feelings of horror and condemnation”, while British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II said she and Prince Philip “have been shocked by the events”.
In many cases, private security guards are not particularly well-trained or well-paid, and do not receive a second background check in the years after they are hired, Goldenberg said, noting most states did not regulate the industry.
Reacting to the latest in a litany of mass gun killings in the US, Obama said the Federal Bureau of Investigation was “appropriately investigating this as an act of terrorism”.
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The FBI said Mateen had previously been investigated – and cleared – by the agency for suspected ties to an American suicide bomber and after making inflammatory terror-related comments to coworkers. He called those interviews inconclusive.
